About Us
Fibershed Sri Lanka is a non-profit organization. At Fibershed, we work to develop regional natural fiber systems that generate lasting prosperity for our local economies, global climate, and the health and diversity of our ecosystem.
Fibershed Sri Lanka intends to support, empower, transform, and grow the local communities that already existed in the good old days in Sri Lanka. Necessary in the transition to a sustainable future for Sri Lankan textiles and fashion industry. It mainly focuses on improving, advocating, and promoting local fibers, local dyes, and local labor systems.
Bridging from rural to urban and local to international: Improving the lifestyle of local farming communities by promoting their fiber products (textiles and fashion accessories) and adapting them to new market opportunities, from rural to urban and local to international.
This can be a good opportunity to Integrate global needs to Sri Lankan market with emphasizing more variations in regenerative organic alternatives to the polluting fibres.
Fibershed Sri Lanka will focus on blending & bridging,
Bridging
From rural to urban and local to international; Improving the lifestyle of local farming communities by promoting their fiber products (textiles and fashion accessories) and adapting them to new market opportunities, from rural to urban and local to international.
Blending
Regenerative Agriculture; Support farmers by sharing knowledge about new regenerative farming techniques and stimulate them in using their traditional Sri Lankan farming systems to get the best mix.
This will result in a Fiber-Farm system, starting with international collaborations between local farmers and global customers, by jointly executing fiber projects in Sri Lanka. Integrating global needs – more variation in regenerative organic alternatives to the polluting synthetic textile fibers – with the extraordinary Sri Lankan factors – the perfect climatic conditions for the cultivation of natural fibers and the availability of knowledge and labour. This will directly bring the comparative advantage to the international customers and generate a better life for local farming communities. In the future also initiate domestic Fiber-Farm system collaborations.
‘As a thoughtful leadership and network organization
Fibershed Sri Lanka will focus on
Blending and Bridging
Natural Fiber Production Life Cycle
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