Caitlin Garcia-Ahern launched Thread Caravan in 2014 with a clear purpose: to close the distance between traditional textile artisans and the people drawn to their work. Rather than building another fair trade product brand, she built something harder to replicate—immersive travel experiences that bring small groups directly to weavers, dyers, and makers in places like Guatemala, Morocco, and Peru. Before the first pilot trip even ran, Caitlin built the Thread Caravan website on Squarespace.