





SEAsTra exclusively markets Unique, Hand Made Women’s Accessories. SEAsTra’s clients include upscale fashion boutiques, multiple location boutiques,
also hospital and museum shops.
SEAsTra offers: Hand Woven Silk Shawls and Scarves; Handcrafted Jewelry; Hand Stitched and Hand Woven Cotton Fabric Handbags; Hand Stitched
Cotton Fabric Sandals; Handcrafted, Hand Embroidered Hmong and Lahu Cotton, Specialty Bags; Handcrafted and Adorned Designer Handbags; Hand
Painted Silk/Cotton Shawls; and Hand Woven, Open Weave Cotton Scarves. SEAsTra, a supplier of wholesale women’s apparel, accessories, jewelry and
leather trimmed bags, adheres to the principles of Fair Trade.
SEAsTra Handcrafted Art, a quality line of SE Asia Trade Co., is a wholesale supplier of unique, Handmade Thai Jewelry produced by Saronrat. Having
earned a university degree in Art, Saronrat progressed from making jewelry for herself to fashioning jewelry for an international clientele. Saronrat’s unique,
original jewelry designs combine silver, gold, leather, pearls, and semi-precious gemstones that appeal to Traditional Thai Styles and Contemporary Western
Tastes. In pursuit of her art, Saronrat migrated from her home in northern Thailand. Currently, Saronrat designs elegant necklaces, bracelets and earrings in
her small studio in the capital city.
SEAsTra was founded in 2005 by George Meck, a graduate of the University of Arizona and former director of research in the Singapore office of an
American international market research firm. A certified SCUBA Instructor, George moved to Thailand and was actually on the water during the disastrous
tsunami of 2004; that business opportunity was effectively eliminated. An interest in ethnic arts and crafts led to establishing his firm.
Pursuing that interest, SEAsTra continuously searches for and identifies local Artisans and rural groups throughout Thailand. SEAsTra engages them over
time to further develop their traditional skills and to collaborate with them to foment sustainability and to expand those skills in order to craft products that
appeal to the contemporary fashion market. SEAsTra subscribes to a Fair Trade business model; we work only with groups which allow us to visit and
observe the products being made, guaranteeing that proper business practices are adhered to.
The CEO of SEAsTra lives in Thailand and speaks Thai; this permits us to work directly, on-site with the Artisan groups to promote high quality,
marketable products in both traditional and contemporary designs, and to assist the Artisans in achieving economic security and self-sufficiency. Subscribing
to a Fair Trade business model, SEAsTra ensures that all groups adhere to fair labor practices, guaranteeing safe working conditions and appropriate living
wages for all members, and that child labor is strictly prohibited. All of the products we represent are made through cottage industries using time-honored
methods. SEAsTra considers it a point of pride to have established a collaborative and supportive relationship with the Artisans with whom we work.
SEAsTra, having representatives in Los Angeles, California, Athens, Georgia, and Chiang Mai, Thailand, is a Fair Trade wholesale supplier of women’s
apparel and accessories; hand made silk shawls and scarves. SEAsTra regularly exhibits at trade shows in New York City, Atlanta, Georgia, San Francisco,
and Los Angeles. Additional web search categories are: Fair Trade, Jim Thompson, Pashmina, Siam Silk, wedding, bridal, bridesmaids and formal wear.
In mid-April 2012, SEAsTra exhibited at the Museum Store Association Expo, in New Orleans.
SEAsTra will exhibit at the following trade shows this coming Summer:
the Atlanta International Gift Market, Booth 2-1105, Global Designs;
the California Gift Show, Los Angeles, Booths 713/715, Kentia Hall;
and the NY International Gift Fair, New York City, Booth 506, Handmade Global Design.