!!!####!!! Solid Wood Furniture !!!####!!! Community Pottery Studio !!!!####!!!! Makerspace

!!!####!!! Solid Wood Furniture !!!####!!! Community Pottery Studio !!!!####!!!! Makerspace


This is a counter proposal

To extraction, ego, and domination.

Woodworking in PJ, Crafting in PJ, Pottery studio in PJ

FRIENDS is a nonprofit worker-owned craft cooperative that produces high quality furniture at a fair price, for a fair wage.

More specifically:

(1) The Coop builds solid wood furniture and handmade pottery that are made for life;

(2) using traditional methods that are decentralised and embodied;

(3) in its craftspeople who all have voting rights and choose a democratically negotiated share of the profits;

(4) to be sold at an affordable and accessible price

(5) in order to politically empower a more kind, affordable, and skilled society — in other words, an experimental machine in viable worker alternatives to capitalism.

TL;DR: It’s a kopitiam for crafts.

Impact

RM80,000

Income generated directly to beneficiaries

2,000+

Sustainably produced home goods made and sold

3,680+

Hours of skill training provided.

Woi, dun talk so much. I just want to:

Solid Wood Custom Jointed Coffee Table
Solid Wood Furniture and Homegoods
pottery studio in pj, learn pottery, practice pottery, pottery club
Close-up of a woven chair with white fabric webbing and wooden armrests.

Locally made and designed home decor

At a fair price for a fair wage

Wood Stool
MYR 240.00
Craft Chopping Board
from MYR 130.00

The easiest way to begin?

  • Recreational Membership

    Our Recreational Membership provides monthly unlimited access to our pottery studios. There is no lock in period.

  • Our Process

    How we connect craft, worker power, and environmental justice into beautiful products.

  • Produce at the Coop

    You make things AND you are have done so professionally? Here is more info on collaborating / working as a maker here.

Media and Partners

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