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, March 14, 2013
MayaMam Weavers Our New BIG Warper
Along with our new space getting better and better -- we finally have electricity, nearly 10 months after we requested it -- we have a new large-sized warper. We needed a larger warper because we are starting to sell our fabrics by the yard in the US, and because we are (hopefully) beginning a collaboration with a group in Mazatenango to provide them with bolts of wide fabric that they will turn into curtains, sheets, and such to sell to their local market. The diameter of the warper is the limiting factor on the length of our bolts of fabric. This new one really expands our potential.
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