Mayan girls and young women in Guatemala are triply disenfranchised by their youth, their gender and their ethnicity. At the age of 12 they are taken out of school to
Anna, David, Jane, and Nika led this workshop on valuing time and pricing. They started with a laughing ice breaker in which all participants had to laugh for a whole
Last year some of the women from Ajkem’a Loy’a were trained in naturally dyeing cotton threads for their weaving. With a stove setup in the outside patio of the students’
The women of Ajkem’a Loy’a finishing the bags they designed. Mayda takes charge concerning the patterns and the sewing Rebecca sewing Romelia’s bag Hilda and Gloria finishing their bags, the
Before and After shots from the inside coming soon…
Lesson learned from the project: only what is truly designed collaboratively remained in the artisan women’s group a year after the project began. In summer 2008 a team of students
One thought on “The first weaving experiments”
Ah, beautiful! I particularly like the first and last images – am intrigued by that complex pattern! Where have you been working?