Tiny Cane Collective
Ignited by Tiny Miracles, a Mumbai and Amsterdam-based social enterprise working to build greater equity by linking consumers with excluded / marginalised communities in Mumbai, the Tiny Cane Collective exists to ensure the Pardeshi’s are recognised and paid for the value of their work.
A studio born from the need to provide dignified work to people in need, sparked by a Tiny Miracles worker’s idea to revive a handmade craft overshadowed by machine production.
Our Pillars
Transparency
We live in a world where companies claim their products are 'handcrafted with love.' In our experience, 100% of handcrafted products are handcrafted with labour.
The Transparency Experiment was born from one question: what do premium craft brands actually pay their people?
So we broke down every cost into its parts. Here's our P&L statement. Read it, do the math, and tell us what we're missing. We're always open to the conversation.
Transformation
Transforming craft and people, the collective aims to be part of the continuous evolution of craft and explore what its future can look like, not by eliminating artisans, but with them.
We aim to create artisan agency: creative freedom to experiment, something individual practitioners rarely get when focused on survival.
We upskill not just in technique, but in design.
Together, we are constantly exploring how to bend, shape, color, burn, and transform cane.
