Arizona Sustainability Series | Sustainable Fashion handcrafted Fashion by Ethical Fashion Guatemala Artisans
Hand Crafted Products from Guatemala are protected by Ethical Fashion Guatemala, protecting Artisans using the DMCA Copyright Act. We have grown, providing services for buyers seeking Authentic products direct from the Artisans of Guatemala a single transparent source.
To all our friends’ thank you for direct income to Artisans all over the world! Your support has enabled 1000’s of Artisans through the projects represented by our work together.
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Arizona Sustainability Series | Sustainable Fashion handcrafted Fashion by Ethical Fashion Guatemala Artisans
Ethical Fashion Guatemala Hand Crafted Products are not products sold on the streets of Tourist destinations such as Antigua and Lake Atitlan.
The Artisans work from their homes in the villages surrounding these cities.
We do not support the idea of Fair Trade, because we do not feel our Artisans paid the Guatemala minimum wage of $12.00 per day for products that are sold for hundreds of dollars profit by others is Fair Trade.
Guatemalan Hand Crafted Textiles Are Unique
The results are spectacular, from cotton to final product, taking a weaver three weeks to complete this blanket.
Traditional huipils, especially ceremonial ones are rare and very hard to find.
Arizona Sustainability Series | Sustainable Fashion handcrafted Fashion by Ethical Fashion Guatemala Artisans
Ethical Fashion Guatemala offers rare authenticated Huipils, providing documentation on the family and the village the Huipils came from.
We do not cut up Huipils for the production of Leather Bags.
Ethical Fashion offers new Huipils from 18 villages around the Highlands of Guatemala.
Small Batch Hand Roasted Guatemala Coffee Beans
Did your morning cup of coffee offer a note of chocolate? If not then you have not tasted a cup of award-winning Guatemalan Coffee. Roasted on Monday to your specifications, delivered on Saturday.
Guatemala Handmade Coffee starts with the harvesting by hand, the green beans carried from the fields by hand. Premium Guatemala Coffee is processed most from raw bean to drying by hand.
Water is used to move and ferment the Coffee Beans. The drying of Green beans is by hand, bags are carried to drying patios and hourly for 5 days, the coffee is raked by hand using wooden rakes.
The difference between our Coffee and what you drink?
The coffee most of us the experience has been processed as much as possible with mechanical process, then the beans are mixed with other varieties, this would be like mixing red and white wine.
A lot is made about FAIR Trade Coffee, buy direct, support local growers the reality is these websites are middlemen paying growers and roaster pennies on the pound compared to the huge profits they rake in.
Lead Free Hand Painted Ceramics
Painting has been used since early prehistoric times and can be very elaborate. The painting is often applied to pottery that has been fired once, and may then be overlaid with a glaze afterward.
Many pigments change color when fired, and the painter must allow for this.
You will find Lake Atitlan Ceramics Store is Nestled along the eastern shore of Lake Atitlan is the Kakchiquel Maya village of San Antonio Palopó offering spectacular views of Lake Atitlan. This small unspoiled picturesque village is known for its indigenous style of clothing (traje) and for producing the finest pottery and ceramics in Guatemala.
San Antonio Palopo Lake Atitlan Ceramics Store offers pottery and ceramics that are created in San Antonio Palopó incorporates hand-painted unique indigenous designs in a range of colors and motifs that showcase the indigenous culture, themes, and motifs in a vibrant style.
What makes this area so special for creating pottery and Lake Atitlan Ceramics Store has the varied types of rocks, sand, and volcanic activity that have combined over the centuries to produce a lump of clay that is perfect for making high-quality ceramics.
Roasted Cacao Beans
The Mayans consumed chocolate by first harvesting the seeds — or beans — from cacao trees. They fermented and dried them, roasted them, removed their shells, and ground them into paste. (Much of that process remains unchanged to this day in the guality products we provide.
We export roasted hand sorted, Graded Cacao beans in lots up to 70 kilos.
Hand Crafted Leather Products Natural Dyes
Nicolas Pop of La Cueva Leather.
Arizona Sustainability Series | Sustainable Fashion handcrafted Fashion by Ethical Fashion Guatemala Artisans
La Cueva Leather in San Juan La Laguna is devoted to keeping the art of leather crafting alive.
Owner, Nicolas Pop has been pushing the boundaries of imagination custom designing, from the highest quality leather, a wide variety of handbags, tote bags, shoes, belts, backpacks, wallets, knife holders, and many other items for the past 15 years.
La Cueva has a reputation for quality, value, and attention to detail, garnering attention from around the world.
Anyone who has ever made something from leather knows that feeling — that sense of pride and affection for this work of art that you’ve created with your own two hands.
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How to purchase?
Ethical Fashion Guatemala has spent the last 9 years working with Artisans in Guatemala and other Countries.
The creations of the Artisans are rare, unique pieces of work based on knowledge and skills handed down through generations.
Most of our sales are direct to consumers and in specific cases; we provide the resources for developing custom lines of products.
For Wholesale injuries, we have guidelines, if you an established retailer or have an active on-line business we would love to talk.
Pricing of our products is not based on Guatemala pay scales. We are not middlemen, we provide the bridge between the Artisans and the buyer.
You can reach us 502-4467-9981 and On WhatsApp.
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Ethical Fashion Guatemala provides Shipping Services, as described on this page, for Guatemalan Artisans. The services provided are for Guatemalan Artisans customers only.
Services are provided World Wide by DHL Express.
Ethical Fashion Guatemala Copyright Protection Services.
This service is provided for FREE, only for Artisans.
According to United States Copyright Law, and quoting from the copyright.gov website, your art is considered copyright protected from “the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form”.
“A tangible form, is a completed work of Art.”
Ethical Fashion Guatemala Maintained by Grupo Maya Net
Grupo Maya Net is a Lake Atitlan Internet Service Provider.
Tel. 502-7762-2092 / 7762-2992
info@grupomayanet.com
Avenida Santander Centro Comercial el Patio Local No.6
Panajachel Solola
This Website owned by the Artisans of Guatemala.
You will find on Websites in the US selling Handmade Guatemalan Artisan products that are Fakes or Knock Offs.
Photography by:
Omar Soumoza San Pedro La Laguna Lake Atitlan Guatemala.
Model:
Kaila Tzul Tzul Panajachel Solola
