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Warp to weft
Weaver support
Loom repair grants, count-testing kits and design libraries reach registered weavers each season — the invisible infrastructure of a working handloom.
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Nepal's weaving traditions, organised and elevated.
HFMN supports Nepal's handloom weavers, producer groups and traditional textile hubs — connecting looms with silk, wool and natural fibers, and elevating quality, design and market reach.
The Story
The loom is Nepal's oldest factory.
Long before industrial mills, the loom in the courtyard was Nepal's factory floor — a household economy that turned mountain wool, silk and plant fibre into cloth for a whole valley.
HFMN's handloom programme protects that lineage while giving it the modern spine it needs: shared quality standards, traceable raw material, and a national market channel that pays weavers a fair rate for a fair count.
At the loom
Every warp thread carries a household.
A single Nepali handloom sustains not just a weaver, but the dyer, the spinner, the mulberry farmer and the cooperative that binds them.
5.1
Our Approach
HFMN organises weavers into cooperatives, trains new artisans, documents traditional techniques and connects producers with designers, buyers and export platforms — all under one national quality framework.
5.2
Weaver Support
- ◆Organise weavers and producer cooperatives
- ◆Support traditional textile skills
- ◆Connect handloom with silk, wool and natural fibers
- ◆Promote design improvement
- ◆Support quality standards
- ◆Link producers with market platforms
5.3
Product Categories
- ◆Scarves
- ◆Shawls
- ◆Stoles
- ◆Sarees
- ◆Fabric rolls
- ◆Home textiles
- ◆Institutional fabrics
- ◆Traditional textiles
- ◆Luxury handloom products
- ◆Natural fiber blended textiles
- ◆Silk-wool blended products
In Practice
The loom, as we work with it.
Everything HFMN does — from a mulberry seedling to a finished bolt of cloth — is stewarded by a real cooperative, a real weaver and a real ledger. This is a snapshot.
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Craft councils
Design revival
We commission master weavers to document dying motifs and teach them back to the next generation through paid apprenticeships.
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Fair rates
Piece-rate discipline
HFMN publishes reference piece rates by count and pattern, so no cooperative undercuts another and no weaver undersells their hours.
“For thirty years I wove for whoever came. Now I weave for a mark that carries my name off the mountain.