The Index
Every brand Ochriva has written about, with a link to its story and to the brand itself.
Ekua Ceramics
A single borrowed ceramics class in Long Beach became Sara Ekua Todd's life's work: sculptural clay in colors that seem to have been mixed rather than chosen.
Black Pepper Paperie Co.
Hadiya Williams left a nonprofit desk for clay, then for surface design, and built a body of work fluent in West African form and the graphic confidence of the Black Arts Movement.
DEEP BLACK
A former software developer taught himself the wheel in a single season and built DEEP BLACK, a ceramic studio of inky glazes, Venetian artichokes and constellations hidden in plain sight.
BODDO Studio
After two decades in public radio, Aishah Rashied Hyman founded BODDO Studio, translating West African textile traditions into pillows, slipcovers and ottomans sewn by a co-op of immigrant women in Atlanta.
Petit Kouraj
Petit Kouraj makes fringed net bags that move like clothing, designed in Brooklyn by a stylist of Haitian heritage and named in Creole for the courage it takes to begin.
Tantuvi Studio
Tantuvi Studio designs its flatweaves in Brooklyn and entrusts them to weaving families in Rajasthan, whose craft began four centuries ago as flooring for nomads' tents.