And in my model, yarn shops would be promoters of such a project as well.

One could get a handknit sweater for 100$ plus the cost of the yarn, which is really astounding.

My mother can knit a sweater in a couple of weeks, part time, but she is really fast.

The women in the villages could be knitting in the evening to supplement their income, and one woman in an area can act as the distributor and helper for knitting problems.

The right platform can accommodate any market requirements, and any necessary participants, as sub groups.

It's the legal, financial and IT architecture and funding instruments that interests me....sad, I know !

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To my Swedish ears NGO has always had a strange sound - the importance of the form of organisation should not be that it is non-governmental. In Swedish förening could be any non-profit legal person with members uniting to do things. A labor union, a coop, a political party, a stamp collectors association. Depending on purpose and activities, subject to some demands on internal democracy and non-discrimination they can also be eligeble for government grants, but most would not fold if that was cut of.

So my question is who is it you want to unite for a common purpose? Or is the NGO just a vehicle to access government funding? If the latter, then joining an existing NGO that has purpose and activities this should match and has the experience of getting funding from relevant government authorities could free up much time and effort. The NGO apply for funding, hire you to do the project.

Or is the idea more business directed? Want to have mroe control and ownership? Hope to get rich? Then something along the lines of Chris Cooks suggestion would be preferable (though in Sweden, that would be probably an förening, as it is a legal person with extremely flexible rules on how the charter looks).

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it's interesting but not exactly what I had in mind.  I want to work directly with the workers, not "artists" and give people the choice of exactly what they want.  

I see so many talented people working in touristic areas but their products are not geared to what people want -  there are so many ethnic sweaters you want to wear.