Naturally Dyed Ethically Handmade

About AMMA

Handmade, Hand-dyed, Handwoven Textiles.

The AMMA workshop is based in the highlands of Sri Lanka. From our rural location we hand dye and make all of our products.

Ethically produced by our team of mother makers, we harness the power of food waste, fallen leaves and ayurvedic plants to make our dyes.

Producing beautiful textile products for you and your home.

Discover Our Process

Conscious Colour

Providing training + employment to women living on Sri Lanka’s tea estates.

Meet The Makers

Featured

Nov 11, 2018

Product Range

Nov 11, 2018

A look into the products we make at the AMMA workshop.

Nov 11, 2018

Oct 30, 2018

The AMMA Journey

Oct 30, 2018

AMMA founder Josie writes about her personal experience of starting AMMA. Originally posted on the TRAID blog.

Oct 30, 2018

Sep 17, 2018

Making Of: Our Avocado Apron

Sep 17, 2018

A behind the scenes look at who makes our avocado apron and how we make it.

Sep 17, 2018

Jul 15, 2018

Payment in Rupees or Flour?

Jul 15, 2018

A look at the livelihoods of the mothers we employ and the workplace culture we work hard to cultivate.

Jul 15, 2018

Jun 30, 2018

Wellbeing + Workspace: For the Love of Light

Jun 30, 2018

A look at the new AMMA workshop, and why a good work space cultivates creativity.

Jun 30, 2018

Apr 28, 2018

Tea + Garments: The Fashion Revolution

Apr 28, 2018

A blog post written in response to fashion revolution week + how AMMA fits into it.

Apr 28, 2018

Apr 4, 2018

Why, Sri Lanka?

Apr 4, 2018

AMMA founder Josie writes about her journey to starting a social enterprise in Sri Lanka

Apr 4, 2018

Mar 14, 2018

Behind the Harbour Blanket...

Mar 14, 2018

A behind the scenes look at how we make our patchwork blankets.

Mar 14, 2018

Feb 4, 2018

- Two weeks spent at AMMA -

Feb 4, 2018

Guest blog written by Sascha Pare about her experience volunteering with AMMA.

Feb 4, 2018

Jun 30, 2017

-Honest Lessons But A Very Real Joy-

Jun 30, 2017

Thoughts from AMMA founder Josie about the highs and lows of starting a social enterprise.

Jun 30, 2017

Follow our journey on Instagram

At AMMA we have provided approximately 4,800 hours of employment to young women and mothers in 2018. That’s a lot of dyeing, sewing, cutting and embroidery 🧵 it’s meant that AMMA has doubled in size growing from employing 3 women to 6. Our quick growth spurt is thanks to the support of our partners @tealeaftrust. Without them I think I would have collapsed in an overwhelming heap of chaos by now 💚🍃
📷 Sweet picture of ‘K’ making tote bags, taken by ‘A’. .
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We are working on developing a step by step dye manual, to make it simple for our women to learn the process. This week our coordinator ‘A’ took photos, I love this image of the madder root dye being extracted but where are there gloves 🧤 ?!🤦‍♀️Hands made from steal these women! I think our next life skills lesson will be a health and safety recap. Always room for improvement. .
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New post up on the blog, link in bio. 🍃 We often get asked what kind of products we make, this post takes you through our current range. As a small social enterprise we are definitely in the market research phase working out what people like and want to see more of. So let us know, your opinion is massively helpful! .
Currently we spend a lot of our time fulfilling collaborative orders on smaller items like tote bags and pouches. This keeps us going and means that our own products (and online shop 🤦‍♀️still work in progress, sorry!) get put on the back bench. Business sure is a juggling act, and we are learning quickly! .
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We have started running natural dye experiences with a local travel company called ‘pepper life’. Each guest gets to learn about our process, have a go at shibori dye techniques and get taught by our women how to embroider their own indigo scarf. We ran our first experience today for 6 women from Spain. For us, this is a really good way to make additional income to help keep our small business afloat and it gives visitors the opportunity to learn about women in the community. See more from today in our stories 🍃
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