Celebrating 40 Years of Craft – The Home — 20% Off Bedding & Interiors
A QUIET MANIFESTO
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CRAFT
A home shaped by craft.
The things we choose to live with become a part of how we live.
The things we choose to live with become a part of how we live.
For forty years we have sought out work made slowly and extraordinarily well. Where material, skill and beauty come together, and where the hand of the maker remains present. Remarkable textiles that carry the knowledge of the people and communities who made it.
WEEK 01
20% Off Home Interiors
This week we celebrate craft in the home.
Naturally dyed bedding, handwoven blankets and carpets, embroidered cushions, alongside some of the exceptional masterworks we have commissioned over the years.
These pieces bring us back to artisans and communities we have known and worked with throughout these forty years.
Remarkable skills in weaving, embroidery, natural colour and patterns learned over years and passed from one generation to the next. There is something important about living with things made by hand. We touch them. Use them. Wash them. Repair them. They soften and change with us. We move them from one room to another and, sometimes, from one generation to another.
A QUIET MANIFESTO
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CRAFT
This November marks forty years of Maiwa.
We wanted to make a publication about the ideas that have shaped us.
We wanted to make a publication about the ideas that have shaped us.
A Quiet Manifesto for the Preservation of Craft is sixty pages of photographs, stories, artisans, natural dyes, cloth, journeys and relationships. It is an attempt to gather some of what forty years of this work has taught us and of what we continue to believe. The Manifesto speaks of cloth arriving at Maiwa after long journeys of hand spinning, hand-weaving, natural dyeing, block printing and embroidery. It speaks of the relationships and ideas gathered along the way, and of our commitment to understanding how things are made and why craft matters.
Perhaps most importantly, it reminds us that the textiles we work with do not arrive as neutral objects. They carry knowledge within them, the knowledge of the weaver, the decisions of the dyer, the language of a particular embroidery, and the place and community from which the work has come.
This has shaped Maiwa as a business.
It shapes what we buy, what we commission, how we design, who we work with, what we teach, what we document, and what we put into our shops. It is why relationships have always mattered as much as product, and why we believe that trade, teaching and the preservation of knowledge belong together.
If the artisans could come together and make a statement about what we all believe, it would be “a manifesto for the preservation of craft”—one that speaks through cloth, colour, texture and pattern, honours the voices of previous generations, and invites in the artisans of the future. And because “the language of cloth is subtle,” it would need to speak softly: a quiet manifesto.
Throughout November, everyone who shops with Maiwa — in our stores or online — will receive a complimentary copy of A Quiet Manifesto for the Preservation of Craft.
It is our gift in gratitude for forty years of being able to do this work.
For the first 200 customers who spend $200 or more, we have made another gift.
Two hundred beautiful one-of-a-kind pouches made from kantha blankets. Each is different, carrying the marks of an earlier cloth and the running stitches that have given it another life.
There is something about these small pieces of handwork that feels very right for this celebration. Cloth used, valued, stitched and given another purpose.
200 pouches.
200 small pieces of handwork.
A gift to mark 40 years of craft.
These will be given with purchases over $200, while quantities last.
Free shipping to Canada & the United States on orders over $200 CAD.
Discount will be applied automatically at checkout.
In Store and Online.
Sale runs until November 30, 2026.
All discounted items are final sale.
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