HOPIE STOCKMAN NEVER met a craft she didn’t like. Growing up in New Jersey, Stockman and her three sisters would spend hours painting, knitting, and sewing. During the summer, they went to weaving camp together. “We were always obsessed with highly specific artistic processes,” says Stockman, 38.
In 2013, Stockman and her sister Lily turned their passion for crafts into a business by partnering with a co-op of block printers Lily had met in India. The sisters launched Block Shop Textiles in Los Angeles, specializing in home goods and hand-block-printed apparel made using centuries-old methods. Today, the eight-person company works with small textile mills, printers, and weavers in India, Italy, and the U.S. to create everything from robes and scarves to curtains and table linens. And though Stockman spent five years as a consultant at the investment firm Cambridge Associates in Boston, she decided against raising capital to fund her business.
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