Value proposition

Berlin-based brand for contemporary fair trade design and fashion

FOLKDAYS is a Berlin-based brand for contemporary fair trade design and fashion, founded by Lisa Jaspers in 2013.

We offer sustainable jewellery, accessories, interior products and garments created by independent artisans, small family businesses, and local fair trade organisations throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. With a focus on the use of natural materials, all of these products are handmade and fair trade. Each piece is truly one of a kind and destined for ‘forever favourite’ status in your home or wardrobe. In doing so, the claim is to create timeless and distinctive products – favourite pieces for eternity.

FOLKDAYS takes a collaborative, strength-based design approach which combines the knowledge and expertise of all participants within the framework of co-creation processes; one which is inspired equally by centuries-old handicraft techniques, local materials as well as decidedly contemporary design influences. We work exclusively with producers and companies that are also committed to the values of social entrepreneurship. To create fair conditions of purchase, our current partners calculate the prices themselves. Learn more about this here.

Since autumn 2020 we have been offering a curated B2B range of handmade, fair trade jewellery, accessories and interior products in cooperation with El Puente, the pioneer of the fair trade movement in Germany. More about FOLKDAYS x El Puente here; here you can also find our B2B shop for German and European retailers.

We see ourselves not only as a business, but also as advocates for change on a political level. We want our work to contribute to making global trade fairer and have therefore campaigned for a law that holds companies liable for what happens in their supply chains as part of the #fairbylaw petition.