Ethical Fashion Products
Four years ago a series of viral articles announced how Ethical Fashion Guatemala stopped the exploitation of Guatemalan Mayan Artisan’s Designs.
Imagine you’re a Weaver or Leather-Artisan in Guatemala.
You labor intensely over a product — let’s say a bag featuring textiles unique to your heritage — and sell it to an American tourist for $35.
It’s worth a good deal more, you think, but the American drives a hard bargain, and considering 65 percent of your nation lives below the poverty line, something is always better than nothing. You make the sale.
A few months later, you stumble across the bag you made selling online for nearly $300 on an American website that claims to be benefiting artisans like yourself.
The Website may feature a picture of yourself that you never gave the visiting tourist permission to take or use, or it may feature a picture of a Weaver you’ve never met from another village.
Media around the world followed our story and featured articles about a problem not only Artisans in Guatemala faced, this is a global problem of exploitation and false claims made.
Ethical Fashion Products. Before you purchase any products from an online store featuring Guatemala products think about the fact.
In most cases, the Artisans are paid a fraction of what you are paying.
Jobs for Artisans, not donations, supporting the Mayan Culture of Guatemala.
The Term “Handcrafted” is thrown around a lot these days.
“People do not buy goods and services.
They buy relations, stories, and magic.”
Seth Godin
Ethical Fashion Products features Maya textiles characterized by bright, vivid colors and patterns.
They are woven, created originally 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 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.
All our products are Handmade
The best way to describe Ethical Fashion Guatemala business is slow Fashion, one of a kind, unique crafted products, sustainable, supporting our Environment of Lake Atitlan without adding pollutants into our land or the Lake.
Ethical Fashion Guatemala is not a NON-PROFIT. Ethical Fashion Guatemala is a Registered Guatemala Corporation, ownership of the shares of the Corporation by the Mayan Artisans, not outsiders.
There are only a few places left in the world where you can meet and interact with Mayan Artisans and experience their creative art.
This is an art form passed down for centuries. Today, tourists come and barter for their handmade products.
The Products Artisans offer, will not be found on other websites, our Artisans produce unique one-of-a-kind works of Mayan Art.
Four years ago this was an idea, now we are Global supporting Artisans in 67 developing countries.
The services we offer include shipping, shipping, a limiting factor for Artisans to reach a Global Audience.
Our DHL Global and UPS contracts allow us from Guatemala to ship to and from any Countries that these companies service.
Coffee and Cocoa while not Fashion products, the producers were paid pennies for a pound of premium Guatemala Coffee and Cacao.
We have changed the economic imbalance.
Ethical Fashion Products
If you are seeking rare, handmade products, our Artisans can create something unique for only you.
Ethical Fashion Guatemala
Ethical Fashion Guatemala