Guatemala Empower Female Mayan Artisans

Guatemala Empower Female Mayan Artisans https://ethicalfashionguatemala.com/ is a website owned by Female Mayan Artisans, This is an important fact for the future for Guatemalan Artisans and the Mayan Culture. Because you will find on Websites in the US selling Handmade Guatemalan Artisan products that are Fakes or Knock Offs. Photography by: Omar Soumoza San Pedro La Laguna Lake Atitlan Guatemala.

The website Ethical Fashion Guatemala is more then a showcase for Female Mayan Artisans products. Female Mayan Artisans earn more then 80% of the retail selling price of the products sold through this website. In collaboration with DHL World Wide Ethical Fashion Guatemala now provides Global Market Access to Female Mayan Artisans products by providing the Artisans with Global Shipping to over 150 Countries World Wide.

Guatemala Empower Female Mayan Artisans

There are hundreds of Ethical Fashion Brands and Lines of Clothing Companies in Guatemala all making claims of helping Empower Mayan Artisans and Weavers. Ethical Fashion Guatemala has found through extensive research into these claims found that in most cases Female Mayan Artisans remain under paid for the products they produce. Ethical Fashion Brands continue to pay the Female Mayan Artisans less then 25% of the retail selling price of the products produced by these claimed Ethical Brands.

Ethical Fashion Guatemala Textile Co-Operatives follow the Ancient Maya tradition of weaving in which the women had two natural types of cotton to work with, one white and the other light brown, called coruscate, both of which were commonly dyed.

The preparation of cotton for spinning was very burdensome, as it had to be washed and picked clean of seeds. To spin and dye a single ball of yarn can take 14 hour.