Colorful Backpacks for Your Children

The Ethical Fashion Guatemala Shop features Maya textiles characterized by bright, vivid colors and patterns. They are woven, created with local plant fibers, with cotton or wool.

Many Mayan weavers today still use a traditional backstrap loom, which is a wearable contraption, to weave the threads into the fabric. The loom to make a backstrap The long strings (called the “warp”) are each tied to the top loom bar, pass through the slot or hole in the heddle, and are then tied to the lower loom bar.

Colorful Backpacks for Your Children

You can order this backpack in different patterns and colors.

Send us your ideas and we will create a piece of art your children will love to wear.

The backpacks are sturdy, handmade from natural textiles, and machine washable (not that our kids get anything dirty). colorfast and stain-resistant Lasting for years and handed down to the next.

The Tz’utujil are noted for their continuing adherence to traditional cultural and religious practices.

The traditional dyeing techniques that the Lema Weaving Association uses in San Juan La Laguna use dyes or colorants derived from locally found plants, trees, and insects in the Lake Atitlan area.

Using the backstrap loom method of weaving, the Lema’ Weaving Cooperative produces purses, bags, shawls, scarves, huipiles, serapes, tablecloths, placemats, napkins, cushions, bedspreads, hammocks, and many more items.