Temple, Farmer, Lentil and Bus Village. Where KOCO hand-knitting happens in rural Tamil Nadu.
Artisans work from centralised village hubs, not from home. The hubs are how quality and fair conditions are held across rural Tamil Nadu.
One of four centralised village hubs where artisans gather to knit, not work from home. The hub holds the shared standard: written patterns, tension swatches and the company of other knitters. Work is concentrated here rather than dispersed to isolated home labour.
After the hub opened, women who had no access to schooling entered paid work through the seven-month apprenticeship, and now knit to a written pattern alongside experienced artisans.
The hub model is how quality and fair conditions are held, and how a woman new to the craft is supported by experienced knitters beside her. Each hub is a workplace, not a contractor network.
After the hub opened, the village held skilled, paid work that did not require migration to a city. Women trained in literacy and maths now read written patterns that run to fifty pages or more for a single size.
Artisans train here through a seven-month paid apprenticeship, learn English literacy and basic maths, and read written patterns with no abbreviations. Bamboo and timber needles only, zero electricity at any stage.
After the hub opened, the village gained a centralised workplace that brought women into a shared standard rather than isolated home labour, and a route into skilled, named work.
The fourth hub completes the network across rural Tamil Nadu. Every garment carries a swing tag naming the artisan who made it, so traceability is built into how the work is organised, not added afterwards.
After the hub opened, the village joined the network of four hubs, extending the model and the shared standard across the region.
Meet the women who knit for KOCO: their training, their craft, and the swing tag that names them on every garment.
Send your tech pack or sketch. We will come back with feasibility, indicative costing and lead times for a hand-knit production run.