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, September 20, 2012
New Weave New Colors New Shawl!
Here is a new shawl for fall in our new weave which we named "Ocho" (which means "8" in Spanish). This weave came out of our experiments with our basic threading which has also given us our diamond weave, "Delfina" weave, and our herringbone. As you know, we are learning to do new threadings and new designs, so we will show some of them off next week! Here we combined a rich purple with a slate green color -- isn't it a rich combination?!
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