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, July 25, 2013
MayaMam Weavers and The Straight Road
One of the weaves we learned in our training we call "the straight road". Now we are seeing how we can use this weave in our next handbag collection. We are experimenting with various combinations of colors. The weave takes its dominant color from the weft, which in this case is black. Here you can see the difference between the white warp and the champagne warp. We are experimenting with some other colors, too, but you will have to wait a few months to see what the new bag collection looks like!
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