Ark Imports

Ark Imports has been in business since 1985, always keeping the welfare of our suppliers and their staff as a top priority. We believe that doing business should be beneficial to all parties involved. We make sure that our producers and artisans overseas are paid fair wages (in their local context) and have a safe and healthy work place to do their... job! We have always conducted our business in a fair and responsible manner. Each year we take two trips to Nepal to personally visit our artisans and producers in order to maintain a personal relationship with them and to ensure that proper health and working conditions are being met. Our trips also give us the opportunity to get first hand feedback from our artisans and producers so that we can make any necessary changes if required. We are proud of the longstanding relations we share with our friends in this beautiful Himalayan land. The culture and traditions in Nepal are very important to us. Knitting is a time-honored Gitatradition with cultural meaning and purpose in the Himalayas. By supporting handcraft artisans we promote traditional skills that are native to the Nepalese culture. We also work with our artisans to ensure that traditional patterns and fabrics are incorporated throughout our collections so that we can help preserve and display aspects of the Nepalese culture to the world. Many of our hand knit items give men and women with families the opportunity to work in the comfort of their own homes. In many cases this facilitates their lives immensely as there is no need to travel from their own villages into town to work in factories or spend time away from their children. This has been especially beneficial to mothers with small children who enjoy working from home and spending time with their children at the same time. Our investment in the well being of our friends in Nepal goes beyond their working environment. Since we started doing business in Nepal about 25 years ago, we have been helping the community through various programs and child ...Read More