Threads of Freedom
Channel: Maakola
Date: 2022-03-30

“Whose shoulders do you stand on? What do you stand for?” - Amanda Gorman

The world features myriad connections. Some of them are common, others hardly imaginable. Maakola is committed to making and noticing connections that uncover something important about the items you wear: the links between the fabrics’ heritage, the artisans and customers, between item name and the pattern or technique used to produce, between your style and the fabric or shape of the item created for you. Every connection matters, and when they are strong enough, we can use them to build communities that change the usual way of doing things.

Clothes, like fibers, can build threads that we can wear or we can build. Thread of Freedom take you on a journey  that starts with the Ghanaian saleswomen more than a hundred years whose stories brought Wax Print fabrics to life. These pioneering women taught us how to transcend all limitations of a piece of clothing and today we strive to create and rebuild the links that make sustainable global fashion possible.