Liminal AU - Freeset Stock catalog 2015.pdf

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Freeset is a fair trade business offering employment to women trapped in Kolkata’s sex trade. We make bags and tees, but our business is freedom!

This catalog shares Freeset’s story and showcases the products hand-made by a remarkable group of women.

We hope you will be inspired to join these women on their journey to freedom.

BUY THE PRODUCTS. SHARE THE STORIES. TRANSFORM LIVES.

This catalog and its contents © Freeset Bags & Apparel 2015

CONTENTSHand bags 4

Shopping bags 8

Eco-friendly jute 10

Lifestyle bags 13

Gift bags 18

Utility bags 21

Recycled sari 23

100% Organic cotton 24

Accessories 26

Photos by Calvina Photography www.calvinaphotography.com

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FREESET IS OUR BUSINESS. IT IS MEANT FOR OUR FREEDOM.— Piyali

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H A N D B A G S

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Print detail Zipped lining pocket, magnetic button fastener

Internal pockets Wooden button with elastic loop

HORIZONLove is Spoken print

BONDHUSari contours

Code: SC114

Bag size: 12.6h x 16.5w x 5.9d (in)32h x 42w x 15d (cm)

Handle size: 1.6w x 25.6 loop (in)4w x 65 loop (cm)

Fabric: 100% organic cotton canvas

Color: Navy Blue (NB)

Fastener: Magnetic button

Features: Folded canvas handlesCharcoal gray organic cotton liningZipped pocket in liningPrint on front only

Code: SC094


Strap size: 3.9w x 39.4 loop (in)10w x 100 loop (cm)


Colors: Blue sari shades on Gray (GB)Pink sari shades on Gray (PK)Red sari shades on Black (RD)Green sari shades on Black (GR)

Fastener: Wooden button with black elastic loop

Features: Straps tie into adjustable knotOuter sari layer for cross-body strapsInternal pocket with two compartments

Photo indicative only. Sari design will differ.

(PK)(RD)

(GR)

(GB)

NEW PRINT POPULAR!

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CLUSTERHerringbone print

Code: SC102


Handle size: 1.4w x 23.6 loop (in)3.5w x 60 loop (cm)

Fabric: Laminated jute

Color: Earth Brown (EB)


Features: Jute handles lined with charcoal gray cottonCharcoal gray regular cotton liningInternal pouch with velcro closureInternal side pocketPrint on both sides

Internal pouch and pocket Cotton lining

NOW WITH COTTON LINING!

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HOPESari trim

Code: SC099



Fabric: Unlaminated jute

Colors: Blue sari shades on Red (RD)Red sari shades on Natural (NA)Red sari shades on Olive (OL)Pink sari shades on Indigo (IN)

Fastener: Zip top

Features: Braided recycled sari handlesMatching sari trim on exterior (both sides)Charcoal gray regular cotton liningZipped pocket in lining


Internal zipped pocket Sari detail Sari handles

(OL)

(IN)

(NA)(RD)

NOW WITH ZIP TOP!

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S H O P P I N G B A G S

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AMITYRhythm print

FARMHOUSECorners

Code: SC118


Handle size: 2w x 23.6 loop (in)5w x 60 loop (cm)

Fabric: 100% organic cotton sheeting

Color: Charcoal (CC)

Fastener: None

Features: Folded cotton handlesPrint on both sides

Code: SC098




Colors: Green sari shades on Natural (NA)Red sari shades on Olive (OL)Blue sari shades on Black (BK)

Fastener: None

Features: Jute handles lined with charcoal gray cottonRecycled sari corner on frontInternal pouch with velcro closure2 internal side pockets (1 each side)


Sari/print detail Internal pouch and side pocket Folded cotton handles

(NA)(OL)

(BK)

NEW SARI DESIGN! NEW PRINT

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ECO-FRIENDLY JUTEYou may know jute as hessian or burlap and associate it with sacks or rope but it is so much more than that!

Often described as the “golden fiber”, jute is a biodegradable natural fiber that comes from a leafy reed-like plant. It grows easily in West Bengal and has only minimal need of fertilizers and pesticides which can harm the environment.

Bottom line: re-usable jute bags offer an eco-friendly and stylish alternative to plastic shopping bags.

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LIBERTYFind Joy print

FREEDOMTreebird print

Code: SC101




Color: Parchment (PM)

Fastener: None

Features: Rolled cotton webbing handlesMustard colored sidesNo pocketsPrint on front only

Code: SC076


Handle size: 1w x 14.2 loop (in)2.5w x 36 loop (cm)

Strap size: 1.5w x 37.8 loop (in)3.8w x 96 loop (cm)


Colors: Forest Green (FG)Black (BK)

Fastener: None

Features: Cotton webbing handlesCotton webbing shoulder strapInternal pouch with velcro closurePrint on both sides

Print detail Rolled cotton webbing handles Cotton strapping, internal pouch

(FG) (BK)

NEW! SOFT COTTON HANDLES UPDATED COLORS!

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I AM DOING WELL IN MY LIFE NOW, I GET MORE RESPECT IN THIS SOCIET Y — THAT IS MY BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT.”— Trina

When I was 14, my father passed away and most of our family’s land was taken. I worked in the homes of other villagers for a while, earning just enough money to feed my family. When I was 17, the local milkman suggested to my mother that I go with him to Kolkata. He said that he had found a job for me there, but when I went with him, he sold me for Rs.5000 (US$1000 in today’s money) and I was forced to have sex with men.

Years later, I got a job at Freeset. Now I am totally focused on my work at Freeset and my goal is to provide a decent life for my family.

The literacy training that I have received means I can now sign my name and write numbers, including my address. Now I can read bus routes and train destinations - before the training I was not at all confident to leave my house, but now I am very independent.

I am doing well in my life now, I get more respect in this society - that is my biggest achievement.

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L I F E S T Y L E B A G S

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FOREVERSari Pocket

Code: SC120

Bag size: 15h x 16.5w x 5.5d (in)38h x 42w x 14d (cm)

Handle size: 2w x 24 loop (in)5w x 61 loop (cm)


Colors: Blue sari shades on Black (BL)Green sari shades on Black (GR)Red sari shades on Black (RD)Pink sari shades on Black (PK)

Fastener: Zip top

Features: Folded canvas handlesPadded front pocket made from recycled sarisCharcoal gray organic cotton liningZipped pocket in liningSimple 2-pouch pocket in lining


Zip top closure Internal 2-pouch pocket

(BL)

(GR)

(RD)

(PK)

NOW WITH ZIP TOP!

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BOUNTYCultivate Kindness print

HORIZONAct Justly print

Code: SC110

Bag size: 15.7h x 20.9w (in)40h x 53w (cm)



Colors: Natural cotton (NC)Navy Blue (NB)


Features: Folded cotton handlesPrint on both sides (text on front only)

Code: SC115


Strap size: (fully extended)

2w x 53.1 loop (in)5w x 135 loop (cm)


Colors: Black (BK)Burgundy (BG)


Features: Premium cotton shoulder strap with metal adjustor (antique finish)Charcoal gray organic cotton liningZipped pocket in liningPrint on both sides (text on front only)

Print detail Print detail Magnetic buttonZipped pocket in lining

(BK) (NB)(NC)(BG)

NEW PRINT ALL NEW DESIGN!

Print detail Cotton rope drawstring

FESTIVAL RUCKSACKGreat Love print

DUFFELAct Justly print

Code: SC106

Bag size: 15.7h x 12.6w (in)40h x 32w (cm)

Rope size: (fully extended)

29.5 loop each side (in)75 loop each side (cm)


Color: Gray (GY)

Fastener: Cotton rope drawstring

Features: Drawstring doubles as shoulder strapsPrint on front only

Code: SC105

Bag size: 17.7h x 15.7w x 10.2∅ (in)45h x 40w x 26∅ (cm)




Color: Gray (GY)

Fastener: Cotton rope drawstring

Features: Circular basePremium cotton shoulder strap with metal adjustor (antique finish)Internal pouch with velcro closureEyelets (antique finish)Drawstring slider (for rope)Print wraps around bag

Cotton rope drawstring Internal pouch

ALL NEW DESIGN! ALL NEW DESIGN!

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Zipped back pocket Side pocket Premium cotton shoulder strap with metal adjustor

Zip closure

TRANSITBe the Change print

TERRITORYAct Justly print

TERRITORYCrossroads print

Code: SC107

Bag size: 9.8h x 13w x 3.9d (in)25h x 33w x 10d (cm)




Color: Black (BK)

Fastener: Zip top

Features: Premium cotton shoulder strap with metal adjustor (antique finish)Zipped pocket on back of bagExternal side pocketPrint on front only

Code: SC103





Color: Gray (GY)

Fastener: Velcro

Features: Premium cotton shoulder strap with metal adjustor (antique finish)Zipped pocket on back of bagExternal side pockets (both sides)Internal laptop pocketPrint on flap only

Code: SC104





Color: Navy Blue (NB)

Fastener: Velcro

Features: Premium cotton shoulder strap with metal adjustor (antique finish)Zipped pocket on back of bagExternal side pockets (both sides)Internal laptop pocketPrint on flap only

Velcro closure Internal laptop pocket

NEW PRINT NEW PRINT ALL NEW DESIGN!

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G I F T B A G S

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GOODYAndrea Moore print

BOXCorners

WINESeedling print

Code: SC108




Colors: Parchment (PM)Magenta (MG)

Fastener: None

Features: Folded jute handlesPrint on both sides

Code: SC100




Colors: Blue sari shades on Navy Blue (NB)Red sari shades on Natural (NA)

Fastener: None

Features: Braided recycled sari handlesRecycled sari liningMatching recycled sari corner on front


Code: SC119




Color: Indigo (IN)

Fastener: None

Features: Cane loop handlesPrint on front only

Folded jute handlesBraided sari handles Sari lining Cane loop handles

(NA)

(NB) (PM)

(MG)

NEW SARI DESIGN! ALL NEW DESIGN! NEW PRINT

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I NEVER LOOK BACK TO THE LIFE I HAD BEFORE. I AM A FREE PERSON NOW.— Joyeeta

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U T I L I T Y B A G S

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MAKEUP POUCH LARGEBlossom print

MAKEUP POUCH SMALLFlourish print

Code: SC117

Bag size: 5.5h x 8.3w x 2.6d (in)14h x 21w x 6.5d (cm)


Colors: Navy Blue (NB)Gray (GY)

Fastener: Zipper

Features: Lime green organic cotton liningPrint on both sides

Code: SC116

Bag size: 4.3h x 6.7w x 2d (in)11h x 17w x 5d (cm)


Colors: Navy Blue (NB)Gray (GY)

Fastener: Zipper

Features: Lime green organic cotton liningPrint on both sides

HANDY BAGShattered Mosaic print

Code: SC111 (small)SC112 (medium)SC113 (large)

Bag size: (small)

3.9h x 6.3w x 2.4d (in)10h x 16w x 6d (cm)

Bag size: (medium)

5.5h x 8.3w x 2.8d (in)14h x 21w x 7d (cm)

Bag size: (large)

7.1h x 10.6w x 3.9d (in)18h x 27w x 10d (cm)


Colors: Parchment (PM) (small)Black (BK) (medium & large)

Fastener: Zipper

Features: Folded jute handlePrint on both sides

Print detailPrint detail ZipperLime green lining Folded jute handle Large bag - print detail

(NB)(NB)

(GY)(GY)

medium (BK) large (BK)small (PM)

NEW! COTTON CANVAS NEW! COTTON CANVAS NEW PRINT

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PENCIL PODSari Tassel

Code: SC109

Bag size: 2.4h x 7.9w x 2d (in)6h x 20w x 5d (cm)


Color: Black (BK)

Fastener: Zipper

Features: Braided sari tassel zipper puller


RECYCLED SARIThe sari is a traditional wrap-around garment for women, worn with one end tossed over the shoulder. Every-day attire for rich and poor alike, saris have been a colorful mainstay of the Indian woman’s wardrobe for centuries.

No two saris are the same, so if you want a one-of-a-kind bag, check out products featuring recycled cotton saris!

(All saris are washed before being used in Freeset products)

Sari tassel

A SPLASH OF SARI

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100% ORGANIC COTTONThe fabric used in our cotton products is 100% organic.

Conventional cotton farming consumes massive quantities of toxic insecticides to control pests. These hazardous toxins pollute the environment and cause serious health problems for poorly protected Indian cotton laborers.

By using natural pest control methods, organic cotton farming removes the need for harmful chemicals and everyone wins!

Great cotton for you. Reduced environmental pollution. Healthier farm laborers.

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I COME TO WORK WITH MY HEAD HELD HIGH — WITH NO SHAME.”— Ashoka

I am the eldest of 10 children and grew up in a village in Murshidabad. When I reached my teens there was a boy I quite fancied. I think I would have liked to marry him, but when I was 13 my mother married me off to an older man.

It was only a few months after the wedding that my mother-in-law sent me out into a field near where we lived. When I got there I found a group of boys about my own age that I had grown up with. They told me that I had been sold to them and they all had their way with me.

Soon after that I was sold to someone in Kolkata. I saw girls sitting around and was told they were enjoying the fresh air, but eventually I noticed that there were a lot of men coming and going and realized what was happening.

It was about that time that I was “corrupted” and my time in the line (sex trade) began.

When I met the man who is now my husband, he wanted me to leave the trade. I wanted to leave too, but he didn’t have a good job and we needed money to survive so I was forced to continue working in the line.

When I came to Freeset 11 years ago, I committed to leave the sex trade when I received my first paycheck after the training period. That’s exactly what I did and I’ve never looked back! I come to work with my head held high - with no shame. I’ve given up the line, I have freedom.

I am now an advocate for Freeset, letting women in the sex trade know that there is the possibility of another life where they can be free from prostitution.

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A C C E S S O R I E S

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BRAIDED BANGLERecycled sari

Code: SC043 (small)SC077 (large)

Internal diameter (S)

2.4∅ x 0.4d (in)6∅ x 1d (cm)

Internal diameter (L)

2.8∅ x 0.4d (in)7.2∅ x 1d (cm)

Fabric: Recycled sari

Colors: Red sari shades (RD)Blue sari shades (BL)Green sari shades (GR)Yellow/Orange sari shades (YO)Pink sari shades (PK)


Size comparison Sari detail

(GR)

(RD)

(S) (L)

(YO)(PK)

(BL)

NEW LARGER SIZE

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LOOP KEY CHAINSignature print

LOOP KEY CHAINTribal Freedom print

LOOP KEY CHAINFreedom Zig-zag print

Code: SC087

Size: 4.1h x 1.4w (in)10.5h x 3.5w (cm)


Color: Black (BK)

Fastener: Key ring

Features: Recycled sari liningEyelet & key ring (chrome finish)Print on both sides


Code: SC097

Size: 4.1h x 1.4w (in)10.5h x 3.5w (cm)


Color: Natural cotton (NC)

Fastener: Key ring

Features: Charcoal gray organic cotton liningEyelet & key ring (chrome finish)Print on both sides

Code: SC121

Size: 4.1h x 1.4w (in)10.5h x 3.5w (cm)


Color: Black (BK)

Fastener: Key ring

Features: Lime green organic cotton liningEyelet & key ring (chrome finish)Print on both sides

Each key chain is signed by a woman who sews bags at Freeset.

A PERSONAL TOUCH NEW PRINT NEW PRINT

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Human trafficking and poverty feed India’s sex trade, where women and children forced into prostitution face a life without choices, marginalized by society.

Freeset is a bag and apparel manufacturing business whose purpose is to provide these women with a way out of prostitution, or in the case of younger women, a way to avoid it altogether. Women are employed on the basis of their need for a job, not the skills they bring to it. They are trained, paid a good wage and signed up to a health insurance plan and pension fund. For many it is the first time they can be proud of the place they work. Best of all they begin their journey to freedom.

You contribute to women’s ongoing freedom when you buy the eco-friendly Freeset products they have made.

Join the journey and visit us at freesetglobal.com for more information about the business and to find where you can purchase Freeset products.

A FAIR TRADE BUSINESS OFFERING FREEDOM THROUGH EMPLOYMENT TO WOMEN TRAPPED IN INDIA’S SEX TRADE.

Protection for those at risk: born in a red light area, a job at Freeset means this woman has never had to work a day in the sex trade.Photo by John Sinclair.

We make bags and tees, but our business is freedom!

This catalog and its contents © Freeset Bags & Apparel 2015

FOR DETAILS ON HOW TO BUY, VISIT US ONLINE AT liminal.org.au

http://freesetglobal.com/



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