Ten Thousand Villages Opens in Cleveland Heights

The store occupies the former Grapevine space

Ten Thousand Villages opened in the Cedar Fairmount District of Cleveland Heights this weekend. The article below, first published April 14, describes the fair trade store that now occupies the former home of the Grapevine.  ---- Are you looking for an open weave scarf made in Nepal, a bird and flower coin purse made by an artisan in India, or rose shell earrings from Peru? If you appreciate unique items and believe in supporting fair trade worldwide, your shop is coming to the Cedar Fairmount Business District. Ten Thousand Villages, currently located in downtown Cleveland, will take over the space formerly occupied by The Grapevine. The store features gifts, toys, home décor, jewelry and other products made by artisans from scores of …

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Know Your Neighbor

Local Boutique Sells Fair Trade Clothing and Accessories

Revive ensures people who make its products are paid fairly and treated well

Revive may look like a regular boutique, but owner Lisa Dunn makes sure she knows exactly how the artisans who design the delicately hand-knit scarves and sparkly hand-crafted jewelry are treated and paid.   Dunn, a 10-year Heights resident, regularly spends 80 hours a week at the shop, which has locations on Lee Road and at Legacy Village. She handles everything from marketing to human resources. Her husband Korey Freeman, who works his own full-time job, spends weekends maintaining the Revive website. And her mother single-handedly scraped and repainted the boutique’s ceiling. "It's been blood, sweat and tears literally," Dunn said. "I work morning until night on this, and we don't pay ourselves from Revive, but I didn’t start this …

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