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, August 23, 2012
Designing Huipils for Cajola
We are working on designing some new fabrics to sew into huipiles – the top part of our traditional clothes – to sell in our market here in Cajola. We are weaving in magenta with black vertical stripes in cotton, a stylish take off on our traditional red wool with horizontal stripes. But we plan to change the weave half way through to a more complex structure and incorporating more colors. You will have to wait to see what comes next!
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