Cotton Clothing and Homeware Ethically Sourced From Artisan Producers Around The World
Ethical Clothing and Homeware, Gifts Handcrafted For You
Malabar Trading sets out to scour the world for individuals or small producers creating or restoring beautiful and useful things for you and your home. Our goal is to support sustainable businesses, fair trading and to help maintain traditional crafts. We sell cotton clothing and bedding from India (blockprinted quilts, nighties and pyjamas), handwoven suzanis and kilims from Turkey, Persia and Uzbekistan, soaps from Portugal and hairslides from Japan. Customers come to us when decorating their homes, for birthday gifts, wedding lists or just when they want to explore the world through our shop. Take a look here at what we’ve sourced on our latest buying trips to India and Istanbul
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Our Bridport Shop
A little exotic corner of a beautiful, quintessential Dorset town. Our shop is open Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm. It is the best way to see our ethical clothing and homeware, one-off suzanis and vintage kilims. If you can’t pop in to visit us, call us on 01308 425734 or email info@malabartrading.com and we can help you find what you are looking for.
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Our Ethos
In a world of homogenous grey, plastic and single use products Malabar Trading sets out to scour the world for small producers creating or restoring ethical clothing and homeware - beautiful and useful things for you and your home.
Our goal is to support sustainable and fair trading businesses and to help maintain traditional crafts where we can.
The ideal that unites our wide and varied range of products is that each item should be decorative, useful and expertly made.
Many of our suppliers are small family businesses in places such as India, Ghana, Sri Lanka or Istanbul, carrying on ancient crafts.
We aim to provide a range of home furnishings and gifts that bring quality and beauty to everyday life.
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