MayaMam Weavers New York Debut

We are proud to say that we participated in this winter's New York International Gift Fair. This is a really big deal for us, and we were so pleased with how the buyers responded to our products. That Javits Center is HUGE! But our booth looked great and caught people's eyes as they walked by. We offered our visitors small pieces of chocolate -- made by Doña Pancha -- but wrapped in ribbons made of our fabrics...people were interested in buying those, too. We will be participating in this important event twice each year as we grow our US business. Here is what our booth looked like, and here are Jean and Trish preparing for our visitors.

MayaMam Weavers Learning to Read and Write

Many of us did not have the chance to go to school when we were growing up. Some of us were orphans, some of our parents didn't have enough money to send us to school, and other parents just wanted their male children to go to school. Our teacher, Anadelmi, comes four days a week to teach us to read and write. Sometimes she teaches us how to fill out some of the paperwork we need to fill out as part of the business, like sales summaries, or our records of our work. For some of us it takes a long time, but we are proud when little by little we can change those characters into words that mean something. And you know, when we can read at work, we can read at home, too, and begin to help our children with their studies.

Keeping the Colors Flowing With Our Gossamer Scarves

Really we are having fun creating new color combinations for our gossamer scarves. And it seems each new color combination is quite popular! We have been experimenting a bit with the weave, but more with the colors. Here are two of the newer combinations.

MayaMam Weavers New Designs in 2013

Happy New Year to all of you! We are expecting this new year to be very exciting. We will be using the weaving techniques we have been learning in the last few months to weave extraordinary fabrics. Here are some new designs we have learned -- incorporating metallic threads. Wow! We are now in the last phase of our training, which is to learn to weave the brocade embroideries of the backstrap loom on our foot looms. It is a bit overwhelming actually, but with persistence and perseverance we will learn!!!