Cotton Mill Nepal Pvt. Ltd.

At Cotton Mill we make things out of a love for nature and a concern for the environment. Our story isn’t just about our products or designs, but also of the people who put their heart into them. Since we started back in 2010, we’ve grown along with the people who have chosen to embrace our environmental ethos to produce textiles that they would be happy to use in their own homes, for their own families.

Started by two entrepreneurial women, Priyanka and Prasanna envisioned running Cotton Mill as a company that captured Nepal’s unique aesthetic sensibilities and spoke of the warmth and traditions of the country. Believers in a sustainable eco-friendly lifestyle, Cotton Mill uses natural fibers and has adopted a production facility and process that is both environmentally friendly and people focused.

After the devastating effects of the 2015 earthquake, Cotton Mill shifted its production into a new state of the art facility that utilizes rammed earth, runs on solar energy, and recycles all the water it consumes. Its open, sunny and brightly lit working space are as much about producing some of the best cotton products in Nepal as it is about building friendships and communal living.

At any point in the day, our work floor is a hive of activity with women chatting and sharing stories as they design, cut, weave and stamp hand-printed designs. In the midst of all this activity, you’ll most definitely run into Kabita, who at 30 looks after the entire production cycle. Over the past four years, having mastered the whole production cycle, Kabita supervises a team of 25 women, all from the local community, who come and work there. For many of the women, this is their first job outside their homes and they take great pride in joining a professional team and becoming independent earners.

Many of the women we employ have to negotiate with their families for the few hours they come work with us. It takes them away from their regular household chores, but our work floor gives them a sense of community that increasing urbanization has eroded from their communities. Once the fabric they craft with their hands are packaged, you can see the pride they take in having a hand in producing them.