!!!####!!! Solid Wood Furniture !!!####!!! Community Pottery Studio !!!!####!!!! Makerspace

!!!####!!! Solid Wood Furniture !!!####!!! Community Pottery Studio !!!!####!!!! Makerspace


This is a counter proposal

To extraction, ego, and domination.

Woodworking in PJ, Crafting in PJ, Pottery studio in PJ

FRIENDS is a nonprofit worker-owned craft cooperative that produces high quality furniture at a fair price, for a fair wage.

More specifically:

(1) The Coop builds solid wood furniture and handmade pottery that are made for life;

(2) using traditional methods that are decentralised and embodied;

(3) in its craftspeople who all have voting rights and choose a democratically negotiated share of the profits;

(4) to be sold at an affordable and accessible price

(5) in order to politically empower a more kind, affordable, and skilled society — in other words, an experimental machine in viable worker alternatives to capitalism.

TL;DR: It’s a kopitiam for crafts.

Impact

RM95,000

Income generated directly to beneficiaries

2,500+

Sustainably produced home goods made and sold

13,280+

Hours of free skill training provided.

Woi, dun talk so much. I just want to:

Solid Wood Custom Jointed Coffee Table
Solid Wood Furniture and Homegoods
FRIENDS Craft Coop Pottery studio membership and classes in PJ
Close-up of a woven chair with white fabric webbing and wooden armrests.

Locally made and designed home decor

At a fair price for a fair wage

FRIENDS Craft Coop handmade solid wood bedside table.
FRIENDS Craft Coop handmade solid wood garden stool, great for decoration and putting shoes on.

Home Goods

Handmade

The easiest way to begin?

  • Recreational Membership

    Our Recreational Membership provides monthly unlimited access to our pottery studios. There is no lock in period.

  • Our Process

    How we connect craft, worker power, and environmental justice into beautiful products.

  • Produce at the Coop

    You make things AND you are have done so professionally? Here is more info on collaborating / working as a maker here.

Media and Partners

CIMB Foundation logo with the tagline 'Empowering Communities. Changing Lives.'
Red circular logo for Milwaukee with white text that says "100 Years," "We’re Just Getting Started," and "Founded 1924." Contains a lightning bolt and the Milwaukee brand name.
Graphic design of a tree made with green oval shapes, with the word 'CHANGE' and the phrase 'Small grants, big change' below.
Logo of The Star newspaper with the words "The" in black and "Star" in red.
The word 'SAYS' in large, blue, bold font on a white background.