Work with us and transform your supply chain to one that is regenerative, transparent and traceable
Connect with our radically transparent luxury supply chain taking you from seed to product.
Ōshadi Collective is healing the disconnect between brands, retailers, and customers and the many pairs of hands who make their clothes.
Our practice is rooted in ancient wisdom and artisanship. Each fabric tells the story of those who helped to make it. We go beyond certifications, inviting brands to discover firsthand how our fibers are farmed and our clothes are made. It’s a truly transparent model that inspires a respectful relationship to the lands and hands behind every piece of clothing.
Re-imagine the fashion and textiles industry with a scalable supply chain that any brand could adopt.
Our open source system is engineered to inspire a new way of making clothes which restores the land, strengthens rural communities, and creates a supply chain that is scalable to your requirements. We ensure your brand is equipped with the data it needs for today’s conscious consumer.
Make beautiful clothing with radical transparency.
Inside and out, every process from farm to finished garment is transparent and traceable. We know how our cotton is grown, with the highest ethical and environmental standards.
Co-create with local farmers and artisans to support circular and sustainable rural economy
We ensure fair income distribution and transparent pay structures.
We employ local people on their own terms, with fair pay and working conditions we are proud of. Usually the textile mills set the final price they pay for their cotton. By keeping our supply chain local and controlling all the steps ourselves, we can ensure we put the farmers
first and can distribute the value between our collective - the farmers, ginners, spinners and weavers, tailors and seamstresses - so the community benefits. We all share the profits from the fruits of our
labour.
Learn from the ancient Indian traditions of yesterday to build a better tomorrow
Our supply chain is rooted in rural wisdom handed down through generations, reviving Ayurvedic agricultural methods and updating age-old artisan skills with a new design ethos, alternative materials, contemporary aesthetics and refined finishing.
Work alongside nature
We heal the land through regenerative practices. At the core of our philosophy is a symbiotic relationship to the Earth. We nurture the
soil to bring back biodiversity, and capture carbon from the atmosphere back into the earth where it belongs.
OPERATE A COLLABORATIVE LAND ALLOCATION SCHEME
We grow our own cotton on our regenerative farm, offering brands the chance to join in through our land allocation scheme.
We source materials responsibly, including organic cotton, recycled cotton, peace silk, hemp, linen, wool and merino, cashmere, alpaca, recycled polyester, bemberg, bamboo, and tencel.
Sekar - Weaver
Sekar is a highly skilled master weaver. He started at the age of 20 and is the third generation of his family to uphold this traditional craft. It is both a skill and an ancestral duty to keep his craft alive and develop his mastery of advanced techniques like jacquard, weaving intricate and complex patterns into cloth. He's been weaving for 40 years and is expert at a range of techniques. He has recently developed a beautiful mudstone flannel for Oshadi.
Seed-to-sew supply chain
We steward 300 acres of land with 300+ farmer partners using practices that draw down atmospheric carbon, increase biodiversity, and improve plant and soil health—composting, natural pest/weed repellents, cover and pollinator crops, and indigenous long-staple cotton seeds.
Through our care, attention and constant development, we now grow 35-40mm staple length cotton - one of the longest in the world. We don’t use genetically modified seed, pesticides or chemical fertilizers. The strength of our cotton comes purely from knowledge, experience, seed selection, soil health and our regenerative farming practices.
We operate a community-supported agriculture (CSA) model: brands forecast their cotton requirement, pre-fund sowing for their acreage, and at season’s end we process that cotton into their fabrics.
Regenerative farming works with the soil, replacing nutrients and replenishing its health, in turn boosting its ability to draw down carbon from the atmosphere, restoring natural ecosystems and boosting biodiversity.
Local and indigenous communities in India, and around the world, have long worked with the land in a way that is naturally regenerative. They are used to living and farming in reciprocity with nature. At Ōshadi, we honour these ancient roots. We collected stories from local farmers living in the villages around our area, who told us about a time before GM seeds, chemical use and monocropping became the default setting for cotton farming. We worked together with them to put these practices back into action.
We have brought the spinning process in house, allowing us to ensure fair payment and safe working conditions at an often exploitative step of thesupply chain. In honour of India’s rich handspinning culture, a small part of our natural fibres are still spun on traditional charkhas by local spinners.
Krithika – Field officer
Kritihika supervises the farm workers, and oversees the important work of treating the cotton seed, preparing the compost and other key elements essential to the overall regenerative aspect of farming. Her work also involves working closely with the farmers, inspecting crops for pests and identifying any problems so that a remedy can be found before it spreads. Before joining Oshadi, she trained at Erode for a B.Sc in Agriculture. Krithika works with 77 farmers, visiting each farmer’s land weekly. Among other tasks, she collects samples to test the soil on each farm for levels of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and other macro and micro nutrients.
Collaborators
Christy Dawn - Collaborator
Californian fashion label Christy Dawn was the first to use our entire seed-to-sew supply chain to create its special ‘Farm-to-Closet’ collection. The brand was designated 24-acres of land through our land allocation scheme, on which our team of farmers grew the cotton before it was ginned, spun, naturally dyed, woven and block printed by our team of experts and artisans. This has now grown to 125 acres, and all the cotton textiles we make for the brand are made using 100% of our own regenerative cotton. Together, we sequestered 2323.59 tons of carbon last year, and the brand described the resulting collection as having ‘reciprocity stitched into every seam.’
