Welcome to the website of Bishopston Trading Company -

a fair trade workers' co-operative set up in 1985 to create employment in the South Indian village of K.V.Kuppam and to strengthen the village's long link with Bishopston in Bristol. The main fabrics we use to make our fair trade clothing are organic handwoven cotton, calico and denim. These fabrics are woven from non GM organic cotton from Agrocel in North India which has now been certified as Fairtrade by the Fairtrade Foundation and carries the well known FAIRTRADE Mark. We have a selection of over 50 garments and 70 non clothing items now carrying the FAIRTRADE Mark.

The beautiful clothes are made exclusively to our design by a team of 203 cutters, tailors, hand finishers and craft workers and a further 250 handloom weavers. We have five shops in the West of England, a mail order catalogue and wholesale customers throughout the UK and also in Holland, Belgium, Spain and New Zealand. Click here to order a catalogue. We are now selling our organic cotton fabric to wholesale customers as well as organic printed shopping bags. These bags are fairly traded organic cotton shopping bags. We now also produce recycled newspaper bags. All profits not used to develop the business are used to benefit the people of K.V.Kuppam through our registered charity, The South Indian Rural Development Trust.

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You will find yourself on the main page from which you can access our on-line catalogue and lots of information about who we are, what we do and how Fairtrade works.