Our vendor partners are either certified fair-trade sources or small woman-owned and operated companies which place high value on fair trade practices such as employing women and paying generous wages and benefits for their labor. Our primary silver vendor is a woman-owned and vertically integrated company – she has owned her production workshop in Bali for over 30 years employing many of her master silversmiths for a lifetime.   Our suppliers and vendor partners are human relationships we’ve been building for the past 15 years and there is a great deal of integrity in both our finished product as well as all the materials and processes involved. In sourcing our materials, we don’t support factory-operated facilities and we opt instead for small artisan cooperatives often comprised of women, either in the USA or developing countries, where artisan work provides a beneficial lifestyle to the workers.     We actively and financially support sustainably minded organizations within the jewelry industry that work to improve the quality and integrity of the industry from an environmental perspective.