MARIEKE TERPSTRA

Proud founder of Piña

 

Making my purpose my business

As founder and owner of Brächa Pina, I try to live my core values every day; to propagate freedom, creativity and sustainability. As a person, but also through my business. I designed and produced sustainable and ‘fair’ Fabric. I didn’t do this alone, but together with a local community in Bali. This way I not only produced a beautiful product, I also provided an income for a group of local employees and their families. I have been doing this for several years in addition to my profession as a hairstylist. In my work I can fully express my creativity and my need for freedom and sustainability.

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My first “wow”

I connected with a local tailor in Bali and together we were able to turn my ideas into really good and sustainable bags.Later on fabric, a friend of mine gifted me a photoshoot. We made a collection of photos with the newly created bag samples and shared them with my community online. 

My business was born: Brächa Design. The interest and sales in my bags grew rapidly and it was by then that I realised that Brächa Pina fabric also was indeed a real a brand. Wow!

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