Naytra Couture’s sustainable silk clothing uplifts artisans

"Your Naytra tunic or scarf will come in a special design cotton bag, with a recycled paper box and with hand-tags made out from recycled paper," the designers said.

Naytra Couture designs silk women's clothing. The sustainable couture pieces include shirts, tunics and scarves — all made with zero plastics.

As the Naytra Couture website explains, working with these artisans helps keep "the ancient folk art of Madhubani (meaning a “forest of honey”) alive." The result is one-of-a-kind wearable art made of 100% silk.

This female-founded, female-run company is driven by three key principles. These principles include eliminating the middleman to work with artists directly and pay them a fair wage.

"We have adopted an absolutely no plastic policy. We use 100% pure mulberry silk – no man-made fiber at all," the company stated. Naytra Couture also works with manufacturing partners that are Standard 100 OEKO-TEX certified, and all packaging is eco-friendly.