A women-led Bhili craft cooperative that aggregates Vagad-belt cotton textile, terracotta and jewellery into a single design-supported D2C heritage brand for metro and gifting buyers.
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Dungarpur sits in the tribal Vagad belt and carries living Bhili craft — handwoven cotton, terracotta, and traditional jewellery — but production is fragmented at household scale and sold locally at thin margins. This cooperative builds on the district's Tribal Vagad farming belt atom (which supplies cotton and natural raw material) and aggregates 30–50 artisans, mostly women, under one brand with shared tooling, design support, and clean packaging, sold via D2C platforms and metro boutique gifting.
The opportunity is brand, design adaptation and distribution, not adding production capacity. The honest constraints are real: ethical, fair-wage engagement with the tribal community without diluting craft identity; adapting traditional motifs to metro taste without making them generic; and the logistics of shipping varied small-batch craft. Building D2C reach and earning a heritage premium takes patience — expect roughly three years to steady traction. Start with the highest-margin single craft (likely textile), prove repeat sales and a fair-wage model, then layer in terracotta and jewellery.
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