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cambodia starts to knit skip to main skip to sidebar cambodia starts to knit the adventures of starting a business in cambodia friday april 30 2010 good bye blogger it s time to say good bye to the original home of the cambodia knits blog and move into the new home at the ck website this was my first experience in blogging and it s been a very positive one we ve made a lot of great friends and fans here and i hope all of you keep checking in at our new home to see what we re up too there is no way to follow us at the new site but you can subscribe as easy as 1 2 3 for an rss feed to keep you up to date thank you everyone for following us checking in writing comments and supporting us so many different ways we couldn t have done it without you there s a new post already waiting for you here see you there posted by monika nowaczyk at 2 38 pm no comments labels good bye website tuesday april 27 2010 our new website i can t believe i neglected to blog here about our new website thanks to the genius of yumi ichida the patience of yeng and the tweaking of house 32 we re up and running have a look at www cambodiaknits com and tell us what you think posted by monika nowaczyk at 8 58 pm no comments wednesday april 21 2010 ck on twitter i finally broke down and signed us up for twitter twitter still doesn t make all that much sense to me i understand how it works but the idea of being bombarded on your phone no less by constant sometimes banal updates from around the world seems odd i m still trying to work out the benefit over the annoyance to this end ck is on twitter find us and follow us here posted by monika nowaczyk at 12 12 pm no comments wednesday april 14 2010 help ck grow we re growing to a new stage and we need your help to get there cambodia knits is excited to announce that we ll soon be working with caritas in toul sambo to set up a full knitting workshop right in the community caritas are building new housing and community spaces and there is room for a ck workspace this means we ll now have an on site dedicated space to assemble our products to completion currently ck has to purchase unfinished knitted parts from toul sambo then assemble them together in the phnom penh office with the new workspace knitters will now be able to earn more by making completely finished products we re thrilled with this opportunity so to get the space running we re asking for a small funding infusion our immediate goal is to fund the knitters new training for assembly and afford travel to the community during training purchase equipment and materials to create a safe and healthy work environment your donations will also go towards setting up a contingency fund for staff a set reserve that staff can borrow from with no interest or advance signage brochure printing and advertising to raise awareness for and promote ck business registration fees because we re not a registered charity we can t issue tax receipts however donors will receive a heartfelt email of thanks and a mention on our donor wall of gratitude every bit will help ck get through this challenging stage please donate today via paypal by clicking the button on the right hand panel thank you donations are fully secure using the paypal system posted by monika nowaczyk at 12 36 pm no comments saturday april 10 2010 ck in australia canberra to be specific last month when we were en route to sydney and nearly missed our flight because we forgot that singapore was one hour ahead and while happily checking emails using singapore airport s free wireless service at what we thought was 6 45pm with lots of time until our 8pm flight and yeng s name got called over the pa and we both immediately realized our mistake and ran ran ran to the gate i got an email from a woman who runs a baby products store in canberra interested in our toys it was serendipitous because we planning to be in canberra only a few days later we managed to meet emma at brindabella baby and are more than happy to supply her shop she s just moved her shop to a new location in canberra rodney s nursery 24 beltana road pialligo and had the opening last week we didn t get to see the new shop but from the photos below it looks lovely and inviting emma has been running the business for a few years selling eco friendly fair trade products for the under 5 kiddies she started doing this out of her house but as the business grew and she found more and more great products from around the world she eventually opened a shop she focuses on products that are fairly produced and help the communities in which they are produced a true ethical consumer you can read more about brindabella baby and see more photos here posted by monika nowaczyk at 2 12 pm no comments thursday april 8 2010 more new stuff since the beginning i have been thinking about how to best display finger puppets for sale way back when i did a search for finger puppet displays and one that looked great was the chopsticks in vase options which we have been using since it s a cheap easy option and kinda cute not the best for shopping though as they tend to get messed up and it s sometimes hard to have a good look the bunch without tipping the display over so for the past few months i ve really wanted to improve on the display and since phnom penh is a great place to put idea into practice at any variety of small scale wood metal plastic workshops i thought it would be snap not so well yes so but you need to have the right person to do the legwork for you luckily ck has chariya who is not only a great translator but a sherlock holmes when it comes to tracking down any variety of un simple requests i have thanks to her in less than three days we have our puppet stands posted by monika nowaczyk at 11 46 am no comments wednesday april 7 2010 new price tags we re getting more and more settled into the new space next step is to formalize the retail area in the front but the knitters recently moved forward from the back of the room because the fan is better there and i can understand with the daily temperature hitting above 40c it s painfully hot we ll need more fans installed i think we re preparing some products to go to monument books today and we re debuting our new price tags these will include the name of the knitter the knitters were very excited about this the website is almost ready for go and have a peak but there are few tweaks still to be made public consumption it s looking fantastic posted by monika nowaczyk at 10 42 am no comments tuesday march 30 2010 the new office oh la la it s been a long time coming but finally here are some photos of our new office workshop apologies for the long absence but we ve been too busy to post anything here until now that doesn t mean we re not busy at the moment but i have some time to indulge in the blog so the new office is a great space for us to grow into the knitters are more comfortable there is more storage space and we can prepare a small retail area at the front the main purpose of the space remains a workshop and office but it will be nice to be able to showcase our products to guests visitors and potential buyers the first photo is looking in this is a standard one and half floor sized khmer pteah laveang the room at the bottom is about 4m by 10 meters with a decently sized kitchen eating area and bathroom in the back the front portion of this room has a high ceiling and overall the room is quite cool even in the hot season the back half where you see the ck staff working will be the work area the front area is where we ll set up some displays photos and information this is a work in progress and we ve got some way to go within the next month we d like to have it ready for visitors though a tiny staircase leads up to this small half room it s bigger than most of it s kind and works really well for a small office with only three of us in here its spacious really again we need to spruce it up and personalize it a bit but all in due time we re all really happy with the space and i m happy to have a commute to work again that is further than my dining room i agonized about the colour for a while but in then end stuck with the colour orange despite all the nays they thought i was loco i think it looks great comfy and friendly so if you re in town come for a visit we re at house 146d street 376 just off street 113 in bkk3 posted by monika nowaczyk at 2 42 pm 2 comments monday march 8 2010 australia bound sorry for the silence the past couple weeks but its been busy there is lots to write about but i ll start with our upcoming trip to australia we ll be flying into sydney on march 18th heading to canberra area for a wedding on the 20th and then finish off the final few days in sydney during that time i ll try to do some presentations on cambodia knits in young canberra and sydney so if you are in those areas stay tuned for more info or email me for details and if you re in australia and have ever wanted to get your hands on some of our products send me an email at orders cambodiaknits com and i ll send you a catalogue posted by monika nowaczyk at 9 38 pm 2 comments tuesday february 23 2010 silk making as we are hoping at some point in the future to knit with local silk yarn i investigated the silk making process at the fair in siem reap a few weeks ago there were two booths set up that sold locally produced silk one which displayed the silk making process and the other the silk weaving process just because it s really interesting i m posting the wormy photos here with a brief explanation of what s going on first very little tiny tiny worms so tiny you can t really see them but i promise they are there the worms eat and eat and eat mulberry leaves and get bigger they keep gorging and get bigger and juicier yum big juicy silk worms after a few weeks of non stop eating action the silk worms decide it is time to move onto the next stage in life and hide themselves in a cocoon of beautiful golden silk unfortunately for the silk worms humans love silk and the only way to get it from the cocoon is to boil the unsuspecting worms alive silk is not vegan friendly the threads of many cocoons are spun together into a single thread slowly each cocoon is unraveled back to its origin a now expired silk worm which like anything organic can be eaten and finally after dying using local natural dyes from bark leaves indigo the finished product silk unfortunately like so many things silk production was all but decimated under the pol pot regime and has yet to recover there are a couple organizations working to help revive the industry but it s a slow process most silk products sold in cambodia are made from imported silk which is then dyed and woven in country if we are ever able to source local silk yarn it will be in very small quantities and only for exclusive small lines of products posted by monika nowaczyk at 8 04 am no comments labels khmer golden silk older posts home subscribe to posts 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