The artisans

We are proud to work with people who are passionate about their work. Each savoir-faire is unique, as is the human being. Our partnership is based on the love we have for our traditions and also on sharing and openness to the world.

Natividad

Beside her mother, she produces patiently our filigree jewelry. This ancestral technique which consists in transforming metals: gold, silver or others into fine threads, then they are shaped to create a lace. Originally these jewels were intended to decorate the traditional outfits of the "Tehuanas". Natividad understood the need to transfer this technique to more contemporary creations, without losing the technicality and finesse.

Antonio

Weaving was a natural process for him. He started when he was a young child: working with straw, bleaching, weaving in cellars, preparing natural dyes, all these memories are part of his childhood. In search of new opportunities, he moved to the city to study and work. Years after, concerned by the almost disappearance of the hat-making activity in the region, he returned to the village. Back with his parents, the decided to teach this activity to the youngest people to make it last. Other members of his family followed his example and returned. Today the family work with love our “panama” hats made from "jipijapa" straw from their own plantation.

Veronica

Born in a family of "tejedoras", wavers. She has been weaving since she was four years old beside her sister and her mother. Veronica weaves our "Jalieza" ribbons in the Oaxaca Valley, named after the region. Each ribbon takes about three full days to be weaved by hand. Their fingers serve as a tool to create the figures or symbols. The figures that we represent in our ribbons represent the local Zapotec symbols.

Rafael

His hands weave our "Mercadito" and "Mercado" bags made of recycled polypropylene fibers in Oaxaca city. Each bag takes two days to make. This bags were originally used to go to the market due to its resistance.

Rafael, in addition to his work as an artisan, works as a teacher in different communities around teaching this skill to women that seek a productive activity and ex-prisoners. Through this, he wants to help them rebuild their lives.