My name is Caryn Maxim. I live in NJ but spend 2 weeks of each month in Cajola, a Maya Mam community in the western highlands of Guatemala. (The Mam people are one of the 22 Maya ethnic groups in Guatemala.) I have been helping a group of women start a weaving cooperative, MayaMam Weavers, over the past years. I would like to share with you some of their work, some of their stories, some of their wisdom, as well as why fair trade -- or trading fairly -- matters.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
MayaMam Weavers at Bonnaroo – A Really Good Time
With lots of help from our friends from the Pulsera Project , we were at Bonnaroo last weekend. For those of you not in the know, it is a vibrant four-day music festival that takes place each year in Tennessee. (Bonnaroo comes from New Orleans slang meaning “a really good time.”) And, the Pulsera Project brought our headbands with them to sell. They had asked us to weave a new style of headband, much narrower, which we gladly did. Both styles of headbands were a hit at Bonnaroo and they sold out! Thank you, Pulsera Project! We had a really good time!
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