Guatemala Artisan Handmade Products are one-of-a-kind handcrafted, organic, and natural products such as:
Purses, bags, shawls, scarves, huipiles, serapes, tablecloths, place-mats, leather boots, backpacks, bedspreads, and much more.
Ethical Fashion in Guatemala: Empowering Guatemalan Women Artisans
Guatemala Artisan Handmade Products Mayan Textile production
- The weavers start with cotton or bamboo; white and brown raw cotton
- The cotton is hand spun and then dyed using roots, bark, herbs, and other plant-based products
- Banana bark is used to set the dye preventing the textile from running or fading.
- Back-strap Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth
- Weaving a Shawl such as the examples depicted on this page can take up to a week of Weaving time using the Back Strap Loom. This time does not include the preparation of the yarns to produce a Shawl.
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