Ruth's blog

The Johari Designs team in Nairobi have again risen to the challenge this time to make some amazing t-shirts for the 'Endeavour Surf Company'.

We are lucky to have a great advetorial this month in Daisy Green Magazine.

Amazing surroundings and a bright and unusually balmy Spring evening helped set the scene for a successful Johari Fashion Show at Merchiston School in Edinburgh on 22nd March .

Our trademark Kilele dress features in the May issue of Vogue's 'Spring into summer style feature'.

Merchiston Upper Sixth student Ruaraidh Drummond is co-ordinating a Charity Fashion Show on 22nd March to help raise the profile and funds for Johari Foundation.

Johari has been going mobile as we head to events to showcase the amazing product ranges we have to offer. It's great to get feedback from customers and even more fun generating sales.

With rising energy and commodity costs in Africa it is proving necessary for Johari to increase the cost of our products.
We need to ensure that through the sale of our products we can still support the Miale Programmes and if you are a regular visitor to our site you may have noticed that over the past couple of weeks we have had to increase the pricing of some of our product lines. We hope that this price increase will not prevent you from making future purchases and that you will continue to enjoy the beautifully crafted hand-made products from Johari.

Johari at Home, is our fabulous range of new homeware products.

Utilising our trademark tree line print we have developed a range of tableware which includes a runner and napkin set. To complete the look there are also some intricate napkin rings, designed and expertly crafted by one of our artisans.

In keeping with the homeware collection and treeline theme we have also released two styles of apron. One a fiftys style which will impress and make you look like a domestic goddess and the other a contemporary bib apron which would suit male or female.

My name is Eilidh Cadden and I am in 4th year at Balerno High School. For my 4th year work placement I was lucky enough to find a placement at Johari in Edinburgh. My week was spent working with Ruth and Laura in the Johari Foundation office in Edinburgh. My week was spent editing photos for the Johari Foundation website and helping to set up a Facebook page for Johari the clothing brand with Morvern a graduate student from Caledonian University.

Johari Seedlings is the exciting new range of kids clothing from Johari.

The striking prints from some of our Johari range have been used to develop funky kids t-shirts for 4-14 year olds and also some small bags.

Johari Seedlings is a range that we are aim to grow and nurture in the coming months. Look out for the kids on our Miale programmes and kids involved in our Step up for Kenya programme modelling the t-shirts in the coming weeks.

Go on, check it out!