!!!####!!! Solid Wood Furniture !!!####!!! Community Pottery Studio !!!!####!!!! Makerspace
!!!####!!! Solid Wood Furniture !!!####!!! Community Pottery Studio !!!!####!!!! Makerspace
This is a counter proposal
To extraction, ego, and domination.
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:
Locally made and designed home decor
At a fair price for a fair wage
The easiest way to begin?
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Recreational Membership
Our Recreational Membership provides monthly unlimited access to our pottery studios. There is no lock in period.
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Our Process
How we connect craft, worker power, and environmental justice into beautiful products.
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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.