Savvy customers demand transparency, and for our business partners, the choice between value and values is no longer an option. Home goods and interiors brands are seeking solutions to meet their raw materials demands without compromising their mission.
The Mercery is building a collectively organized manufacturing hub for handwoven fabric and textiles. We are working to close the loop for the textile industry by creating a more equitable future for manufacturing—a global network of artisan makers.
How We Started
The Mercery was founded with the ambition to preserve and nurture artisan weaving traditions around the world while creating a pathway for justice conscious brands to source high quality fabrics that they feel good about.
We’re working everyday to invent pathways that sustainably and consistently redirect the global textile industry away from extractive practices in agriculture and manufacturing to reinvigorate, extend, and amplify the exquisite production that exists across the globe.
Founding Team
Founder Liz Alspach is an artist and designer with decades of experience leading mission-driven organizations and building relationships with other makers. Her book, 2+2=CAKE, investigates ways in which the artists’ toolkit can be adapted and applied to create disruptive business models and radical futures. It was published in May of 2021.
Artisan Partnerships
Textiles and traditional weaving practices are present in every corner of the globe with unique and enduring techniques that inform and are informed by the characteristics of the land, weather, and people of each place. As globalization has homogenized and automated textiles, we have lost the knowledge, traditions, and resources of locally made, artisan textiles.
