Traditional crafts are being devalued with the availability of cheaper substitutes and authenticity of materials and techniques are being lost. This is a parallel to shrinking biodiversity where we are rapidly losing cultural diversity to a more homogenous and unsustainable world. Designers and design students often work 'collaboratively' with artisans to learn from them. But they invariably do not acknowledge them either financially or as knowledge partners. For example, patterns and motifs are appropriated and cheaper techniques are used to mass produce them. A recent example¹ is a designer who used block-print motifs for a mass-market brand.