Guatemalan Textile Weavers Art is products that have the ability to sell products directly.
Guatemalan Textiles Weavers Art Leather Organic Guatemala like the rest of the world Two years ago watched as Ethical Fashion explodes onto the Internet as the new thing about Who made your Cloth’s, more Fair Trade, Transparency about treating the supplier’s workers with respect.
Fashion Designers being the marketers that they are jumped on the Ethical Fashion kick pushing Handmade, Natural, Renewable, Organic as the new branding works for the fashion industry.
On this website are a few featured Artisans, friends, and business associates. They do not have websites to sell their products, have no access to simple payment tools like taking credit cards or having a PayPal account.
Shop Ethical Fashion Guatemala provides direct sales support from “Artisans to Customers”. Shopping using the Ethical Fashion Guatemala website assures the buyer that the purchases made through this website result in direct income to the Artisans and Weavers of Guatemala.
Guatemalan Textile Weavers Art, Artisans recently had a group of Mayan weavers from Co-Operatives across Guatemala asked the Courts of Guatemala to protect their designs and lost.
This is an important event for the future of Guatemala Artisans and the Mayan Culture because you will find on the Internet in Websites in the US selling Handmade Guatemalan Artisan products they are Fakes or Knock-Offs.
Yet portrait as Handmade in Guatemala often showing Indigenous women used in the Marketing Materials to sell these products.
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Provides Tours that support the Ethical Fashion Guatemala Interests.
The Mayan or Indigenous Artisans of Guatemala, for the most part, have two markets, Tourists that might find their shops through TripAdvisor Reviews.
Or, that Business that have Websites in the US selling Handmade Guatemalan Artisan products which are mostly purchased from these small shops scattered throughout Guatemala.
Nicolas Pop Owner of La Cueva Leather
He is a self-taught leather craftsman who was born and raised in San Juan La Laguna. His interest in leather began as a child while accompanying his grandfather on hunting trips in the mountains surrounding Lake Atitlan.
It was during this time, seeing the different hides of animals, that the seed was planted in his mind on the various items that could be crafted with them.
For the past 15 years, Nicolas has been custom designing, from the highest quality leather, a wide variety of handbags, tote bags, shoes, belts, backpacks, wallets, knife holders, and many other items. La Cueva Leather has a reputation for quality, value, and attention to detail.
Just ask any of his customers from around the world.
La Cueva Leather in San Juan La Laguna Lake Atitlan invites you to stop by and take a tour of their workshop and watch their products being made.
We took him up on that offer and we can assure you that you will not be disappointed. As he showed us around his workshop, the pure pleasure that he derives from working with leather and creating one-of-a-kind hand-crafted leather products was quite evident.
Antonio Vásquez Yojcóm San Juan La Laguna Art Arte Maya Xocomeel
Antonio Vásquez Yojcóm is a talented painter who was born and raised in San Juan La Laguna, Lake Atitlan. After having studied with the famous artist Pedro Rafael Gonzalez Chavajay, Antonio began working on his own and eventually opened a home studio and gallery that is located a short walk from the San Juan boat docks.
His paintings are unique, using vibrant colors and depicting important elements of the indigenous culture steeped in a rich tradition and various aspects of San Juan life and legend. His paintings are sold in his home studio as well as in Santiago and Panjachel.
All paintings are the original work of local artists. They are signed and can be purchased and shipped throughout the world. We invite you to browse through our online gallery and support the local artisians of San Juan La Laguna, Lake Atitlan.
Las Marias Organic Coffee Roaster
Organic coffee is coffee produced without the aid of artificial chemical substances, such as certain additives or some pesticides and herbicides.
Organic agriculture can strengthen the natural environment’s resistance to disease. For example, coffee of this standard is generally shade-grown, a quality that promotes forest preservation.
Other benefits of this process include the minimization of soil erosion and participation in a healthy ecosystem.
Bird populations develop mutually beneficial relationships with coffee fields, enjoying the habitat while keeping insect populations under control and naturally fertilizing the soil.
Prices of organic fertilizers vary widely. Because transportation costs are usually a primary hindrance, sourcing nearby fertilizers is almost essential for success.
Organic fertilizers are cheaper in the long run because they replenish lost nutrients in the soil and thus helps future generation organic coffee plants
San Antonio Palopo Ceramics
The pottery and ceramics that are created in San Antonio Palopó incorporate hand-painted unique indigenous designs in a range of colors and motifs that showcase the indigenous culture, themes, and motifs in a vibrant style.
In fact, this source of great clay is exactly what brought the legendary potter Ken Edwards to Guatemala in the 1990s where he established a ceramic studio.
Edwards taught the locals modern techniques which they then combined with ancient pottery influences to produce the world-renowned San Antonio Palopó pottery and ceramics that you see today.
Guatemalan Maya uses today for clay. Highland Guatemala has a rich geological history comprised mainly from a volcanic past. The metamorphic and igneous rock, as well as the sand and ash from the pumice areas, provide many types of tempering. In the area, their aisa range of clays that create varied colors and strengths when fired.
Today’s Maya locates their clays in the exposed river systems of the highland valleys. It is hypothesized that the ancient people obtained their clay by the same method as today’s Maya.
The clays are located in exposed river systems of the highland valleys. Most likely, due to the climatic similarities over the past millennia, it is likely that these same deposits or similar ones could have been used in early times.
Lema’ Weaving Association | San Juan La Laguna
Guatemalan Textiles Weavers Art Leather. Lema’ Weaving Association is a cooperative that was started to improve economic conditions and the quality of life for women in the community of San Juan La Laguna, Lake Atitlan.
It has played a vital role in enhancing the community and the economic well being of the members.
Lema’ Weaving Association represents 15 Tz’utujil families who have joined together to produce unique and culturally reflective weaved items. Each member learned the craft of traditional weaving from their mothers and grandmothers. 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 is using dyes or colorants derived from locally found plants, trees, and insects in the Lake Atitlan area. The roots, bark, leaves, berries, wood, and insects each produce a different color and hue. A few of the plants that are used are coconut shell, pericón, pepper, purple basil, hibiscus flowers, and achiote, among many others.
Using the back loop method of weaving the Lema’ Weaving Cooperative produce purses, bags, shawls, scarves, huipiles, serapes, tablecloths, placemats, napkins, cushions, bedspreads, hammocks, and many more items.
The Website is Supported by Carlos S. Tzul Tzul Grupo MayaNet
Grupo MayaNet is a Lake Atitlan Guatemala Internet Service Provider.
Carlos S. Tzul Tzul grew up in a small Indigenous village and believes providing the artisans the tools to reach a global market is important to the economic growth of Guatemala.
Cel. 5978-3672 Tel. 7762-2092 / 7762-2992
info@grupomayanet.com, tzulcarlos@gmail.com
Avenida Santander Centro Comercial el Patio Local No.6 Panajachel Solola
Photography by:
Omar Soumoza San Pedro La Laguna Lake Atitlan Guatemala.
Model:
Kaila Tzul Tzul Panajachel Solola
Ethical Fashion Guatemala
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