Barefoot Handmade Products

BARBARA SANSONI is an artist, writer and designer. She has exhibited her drawings and woven panels in Asia, Europe and North America. She founded and has been for thirty years the designer for Barefoot, a company of rural handweavers in Sri Lanka. Her work for Barefoot is characterized by its colours and simple rectilinear forms.

“Barefoot products are completely handmade. The cotton yarn we use has been dyed and woven by hand. All materials including dyes are safe and eco-friendly. The craft skills at Barefoot are timeless. Nothing is mass-produced. If our quality is remarkable, it’s because our methods are. Barefoot is a rural industry run by us wherever we are needed. We function as a cottage industry where workers take work home. We teach skills & assert no time pressure on our hand weavers or needlewomen…they are not cheap substitutes for machinery… which is why our things are expensive, and will last a lifetime.”