Hi! My name is Hilal Palacioglu Ulukaya founder of Society Mano. I am a first-generation immigrant living in NYC born in Turkey. I have always dreamed SM is a platform powered by the women's community in order to produce sustainable & timeless pieces and reach you directly for easy access to premium handicraft quality. The story of Society Mano has continued to be at the core of our business. Our clothes are hand knitted & crafted with my mom, Zeliha, and my 79 talented sisters in Turkey. We aim to create a society with world citizens — for the creation of new premium handicraft pieces, and to collaborate with small- underrepresented-owned businesses from all over the world. We want the Society Mano to be a platform representing our power of community and creating unique pieces with fair trade that you wear proudly. Our every piece is made entirely by hand, from A to Z, using high-quality, sustainable yarns. We sell every piece direct to our customers, one piece at a time, and every piece is made by local and refugee women from one of our female artisans’ homes with flexible working conditions and no deadlines. Our goal since day one was not to build the fastest and biggest business, but a business with having a social impact that supports underrepresented communities and delivers unique handcraft pieces in the easiest way to our loyal customers who shop with us every time who we learn to know by name, and often become our friends. We hope you feel that when you interact with our community and wear our handicraft pieces.