How We Work
The Mercery’s creates vibrant and lasting retail relationships that connect weavers to a market that values and sustains their work. Our textiles are sourced in person from families and weaving collectives worldwide. This library of luxury, handmade fabrics is available to select home goods brands, designers, and retail partners.
What We Do
The Mercery is creating micro manufacturing hubs that connect artisans to each other and the global market. This allows us to meet large scale demand without the harmful consequences of large scale manufacturing.
We aim to be a leading industry advocate for rebuilding the textile industry, ensuring the future for global artisans, and modeling radical new futures through business.
Sourcing
Fine Indigo
Our library of handwoven fabrics are personally sourced by our founding team from artisans around the world. This selection is curated for home goods brands looking to shift their materials sourcing towards ethically and sustainably produced textiles
Industry Leading Ideas
Modeling a Radical Future
We believe business can be a source for good. We’re artists and makers fascinated with creating the things we want to see in the world, and at The Mercery we’re modeling a radical future where businesses inherently do things beyond what is expected in the boardroom. We’re building an organization, an artwork, an entity, a business to model the way we want to be in the world.
What would you build if the goal was to care for everybody?
Collective Organizing
Artisans make up the world’s most untapped startup economy. We are creating micro manufacturing hubs that connect artisans to each other and the global market. This allows us to meet large scale demand without the harmful consequences of large scale manufacturing.
Business as a Source for Good
We believe business can be a source for good. We’re artists and makers fascinated with creating the things we want to see in the world. We look to others who are creating disruptive business models focused on resource distribution, equity, collective organizing, and mutual aid.
What else can a business be?
Guiding Principles
We are building a pathway with artisan weavers around the world for textile consumers to source fabric they feel good about. We think a lot about what words like ethical, sustainable, and equitable mean to us. We landed on some principles that guide this work, and we commit to consistently reevaluating our alignment with them and their alignment with our work.
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Supporting people and their freedom from want and violence is the most central aspect of what we’re in business to do. To do this, we prioritize mutuality in our relationships with everything we touch, especially the artisans, indigenous communities, and the land that work alongside us. Extraction does not serve: our communities, our ecosystem, our colleagues, and we must counter the well worn, societal habits of extraction by intending mutuality. From bumping into someone on the street to signing a manufacturing contract, our relationships are things of service.
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We understand that in order to achieve mutuality we must approach everything we do with sincerity. This demands hard work in reflecting on what is true and honest for us, so that we can articulate to ourselves and communicate clearly to others what it means to be in successful relationship with us and our work.
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We strive for empathy informed relationships which require radical self love and acceptance. It is from a place of understanding our own position that we can truly accept and support the experience of another. Empathy allows us to hold space for the unexpected with generosity, understanding, and optimism. Empathy is a critical component to our commitment to mutuality and sincerity, as it informs our relationship to ourselves and those we work with.
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Enough is enough. One’s relationship to abundance is ever adaptable–informed relatively by experience and expectation. We strive to cultivate abundance consciousness, putting our resources into action to steward the people, things, and ideas we believe in, trusting that this abundance will, in turn, steward us.