Artisan Textile Resource Guide

You can best help support individual textile artisans and fair trade organizations by buying the products they make. With so many gift-giving holidays all year, you can start your shopping right here. There is so much variety in these artists' offerings, you are sure to find something for everyone and yourself. Let them know you found them on WARP's website!

WARP's Artisan Textile Resource Guide gives you direct links to many rich resources that our members offer. There are beautiful handwoven textiles, baskets, and other items—available for both retail and wholesale. If you are planning a trip, our tours section features WARP members who lead textile-focused tours in various countries. You'll also find members that offer services to help grassroots economies that depend on making textiles. Do you have a weaving or craft project in mind, that could help a community support itself? Among our members are all manner of textile enthusiasts, makers, consultants, teachers, and fair-trade experts. Many work with community-based programs and projects all over the world, and can help you help others.

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Nkerisaba holding her bread baskets, Ngurunit Basket Weavers, Kenya
Small day-totes, shown with the natural dyes created from plant leaves, from Artesanos Naturales Indigenous Weavers in Costa Rica.
Janice Knausenberger and Kenya weavers in Njabini experimenting with new designs with naturally dyed handspun wool.
Jackie Abrams with KamiAmi Women in Ghana, with their crocheted bags, baskets, and wallets. Materials include discarded plastic bags.
Catarina, a Mayan Hands Basket Weaver, Guatemala

Nkerisaba holding her bread baskets, Ngurunit Basket Weavers, Kenya

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Above the Fray: Traditional Hilltribe Art

Above the Fray ventures to the hill-tribe regions of Laos and Vietnam to personally select exquisite handwoven silk, cotton, and hemp textiles directly from the independent artisans. Our diverse selection of textiles is created using traditional materials, methods, and motifs.

Amigos de Taquile

We offer fine handwoven and knitted textiles from Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca, Puno, Peru, that have been fairly traded for solar supplies over a three-decade relationship.

Ayni, Inc.

Ayni aims to preserve the cultural patrimony of Peru and promote social welfare in Andean communities through sponsorship of cultural programs, and through sales of Peruvian handicrafts

ClothRoads, a Global Textile Marketplace

ClothRoads provides a gateway to a world of authentic textile culture through stories of artisans, their techniques used in both traditional and modern ways, along with textiles and resources.

Cotton Clouds, Inc.

Cotton Clouds proudly offers Mayan Hands products and Tintes Naturales Friendship Towel Kit. We supply quality cotton and cotton-blend, rayon chenille, bamboo, linen, and blended cellulose yarns, on cones and skeins. Exclusively designed kits are available for weaving towels, scarves, throws, and home décor.

Cultural Cloth

Cultural Cloth’s shop and online store is a destination for those seeking handcrafted home decor and accessories made primarily by women artisans from around the globe.

Endangered Threads Documentaries

A 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit focusing on filming Maya weaving and textiles in Guatemala and southern Mexico. Endangered Threads Documentaries (ETD) DVDs document the history and practices of Maya weavers, with intimate views of their lives and art form.

Es Par Ta

Es Par Ta was founded in 2015 upon the ancient craft of hand made alpargatas, a shoe making technique that dates back centuries.

Folkwear

Folkwear creates and provides home sewing patterns based on authentic historic and folk garments from around the world. Folkwear sewing patterns are sold to retail and wholesale customers around the world.

Fusion De Maya

Marjorie Puryear is owner, designer and colorist for Fusion de Maya, specializing in exclusive Guatemala-made hand-dyed/handwoven scarves, shawls and folkart pillows.

Khadi Oaxaca

Online sales of sustainable and artisanal cotton and wool textiles produced in rural Oaxaca. Ecologically grown native cotton, natural dyes, hand-spun thread, made at home.

Kinship Stories

A culture and art project featuring a line of precious tribal adornments. Our one-of-a-kind pieces include vintage and antique materials, often of museum quality.

LolaLovesCargo

Sustainable contemporary fashion merged with authentic traditional designs.

Marrakesh Express

Hand woven wool rugs from N’kob, Morocco. The Marrakesh site gives Moroccan women access to a world market by selling their beautiful rugs online, retaining more profit as they bypass the middleman.

Mayamam Weavers

Mayamam Weavers markets home and fashion accessories handwoven in cotton by a Guatemalan weaving cooperative. We also provide the cooperative with business and skills training.

Mayan Hands

Mayan Hands is fair trade non-profit organization dedicated to providing economic and educational opportunity to Mayan women artisans and their daughters in Guatemala.

Mekong River Textiles

Working directly with village-based handweavers, dyers, and needle workers since l980 Mekong River Textiles brings the world of Thai, Laos and Cambodia to the marketplace.

New Pathways to Enterprise

New Pathways is dedicated to improving the lives of women and their families living in impoverished communities in the Philippines. Our Learning to Livelihood nurtures the development of artisan groups engaged in a range of textiles creation and enhancements.

Porfirio Gutierrez Y Familia

Porfirio Gutierrez Y Familia is a studio based in Oaxaca, Mexico that works with natural plant and insect based dyes and hand loomed tapestries.

Queen Amina Embroidery

Queen Amina Embroidery is a women’s hand-embroidery cooperative in Zaria, Nigeria, which produces women’s and children’s garments as well as small pouches, pillows, and wall-hangings.

Sharing the Dream in Guatemala

Sharing the Dream in Guatemala promotes sustainable fair trade through fair wages and workshops to partner artisans whose products are sold in our retail locations.

Shekere Creations by Thembi

Thembi is a shekere creator located in the Washington DC area. Her shekere are played worldwide by African, Jazz, Reggae and Spiritual Musicians.

Surya’s Garden

Above the Fray ventures to the hill-tribe regions of Laos and Vietnam to personally select exquisite handwoven silk, cotton, and hemp textiles directly from the independent artisans. Our diverse selection of textiles is created using traditional materials, methods, and motifs.

Terra Experience

Beautiful handwoven doll clothes, huipils, traditional textiles, accessories, related art and books from Guatemala. Strives to support Fair Trade, Mayan artisans, their communities and environment.

The Widow’s Friend

Nokshi kantha tapestries, table runners/cloths, pillow covers, bread basket liners, and Christmas items along with paper/clay bead jewelry. All sales support widows/orphans in Bangladesh.

Thrums Books

A publisher of fine books celebrating the textile traditions of indigenous artisans throughout the world. The content of our books ranges from history and cultural anthropology to intimate personal stories.

UPAVIM Crafts

UPAVIM Crafts is a fair-trade business that is a part of UPAVIM, a cooperative of about eighty women who live in an impoverished community on the outskirts of Guatemala City.

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Above the Fray: Traditional Hilltribe Art

Above the Fray ventures to the hill-tribe regions of Laos and Vietnam to personally select exquisite handwoven silk, cotton, and hemp textiles directly from the independent artisans. Our diverse selection of textiles is created using traditional materials, methods, and motifs.

Amigos de Taquile

We offer fine handwoven and knitted textiles from Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca, Puno, Peru, that have been fairly traded for solar supplies over a three-decade relationship.

Cotton Clouds, Inc.

Cotton Clouds proudly offers Mayan Hands products and Tintes Naturales Friendship Towel Kit. We supply quality cotton and cotton-blend, rayon chenille, bamboo, linen, and blended cellulose yarns, on cones and skeins. Exclusively designed kits are available for weaving towels, scarves, throws, and home décor.

Cultural Cloth

Cultural Cloth’s shop and online store is a destination for those seeking handcrafted home decor and accessories made primarily by women artisans from around the globe.

Endangered Threads Documentaries

A 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit focusing on filming Maya weaving and textiles in Guatemala and southern Mexico. Endangered Threads Documentaries (ETD) DVDs document the history and practices of Maya weavers, with intimate views of their lives and art form.

Folkwear

Folkwear creates and provides home sewing patterns based on authentic historic and folk garments from around the world. Folkwear sewing patterns are sold to retail and wholesale customers around the world.

Fusion De Maya

Marjorie Puryear is owner, designer and colorist for Fusion de Maya, specializing in exclusive Guatemala-made hand-dyed/handwoven scarves, shawls and folkart pillows.

Katyi Ya’a

All native, ecologically grown brown, green and white cotton textiles. Handspun, naturally dyed and back-strap loom woven by Mixtec women in San Juan Colorado, Oaxaca

Khadi Oaxaca

Wholesale offering of sustainable and artisanal cotton and wool textiles produced in rural Oaxaca. Ecologically grown native cotton, natural dyes, hand-spun thread, made at home.

Kinship Stories

A culture and art project featuring a line of precious tribal adornments. Our one-of-a-kind pieces include vintage and antique materials, often of museum quality.

LolaLovesCargo

Sustainable contemporary fashion merged with authentic traditional designs.

LoomKatha

LoomKatha works with close to a 100 handloom weavers across India. We create handwoven fabrics, scarfs and apparel customized to urban consumer preferences and trends.

Mayamam Weavers

Mayamam Weavers markets home and fashion accessories handwoven in cotton by a Guatemalan weaving cooperative. We also provide the cooperative with business and skills training.

Mayan Hands

Mayan Hands is fair trade non-profit organization dedicated to providing economic and educational opportunity to Mayan women artisans and their daughters in Guatemala.

Mekong River Textiles

Working directly with village-based handweavers, dyers, and needle workers since l980 Mekong River Textiles brings the world of Thai, Laos and Cambodia to the marketplace.

New Pathways to Enterprise

New Pathways is dedicated to improving the lives of women and their families living in impoverished communities in the Philippines. Our Learning to Livelihood nurtures the development of artisan groups engaged in a range of textiles creation and enhancements.

Ngurunit Basket Weavers

The Ngurunit Basket Weavers is a cooperative based in the Ngurunit Community of Samburu County in northern Kenya. Their baskets are sold under the label of Nomadic Baskets.

PAZA

PAZA supports the grass roots textile preservation movement in Independencia Bolivia by operating the Club de Artesanas, supporting the Centro de Artesania, Huancarani, and assisting the weavers in finding access to an external market.

Sharing the Dream in Guatemala

Sharing the Dream in Guatemala promotes sustainable fair trade through our wholesale project, allowing us to become more self-sustainable and provide work to artisans.

Terra Experience

Beautiful handwoven doll clothes, huipils, traditional textiles, accessories, related art and books from Guatemala. Strives to support Fair Trade, Mayan artisans, their communities and environment.

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Adrienne Sloane

I am a practicing fiber artist with many years of both hand- and machine-knitting experience. My degree in anthropology has helped inform a strong interest in working with knitters internationally to strengthen their abilities so that they can sell their knit goods at fair-labor prices.

Cloth Girl

For twenty years, I lived a museum life. I am available for museum consultation on any issue, but specialize in exhibit design and development, curating textile exhibitions and textile conservation.

Diane de Souza Designs

My primary expertise is in dyeing natural fibers in enviornmentally sound methods useing natural-dye extracts. Services include instruction, consultation on methods, costs, processes, and viability and dyeing of natural fibers.

Fusion De Maya

Marjorie Puryear is owner, designer and colorist for Fusion de Maya, specializing in exclusive Guatemala-made hand-dyed/handwoven scarves, shawls and folkart pillows.

Jackie Abrams

I am interested in helping to develop small craft industries within communities in need. I teach crocheting and basketry techniques, working with recycled materials.

Janice G Knausenberger

For over twenty-five years, I have served as an international consultant specializing in weaving and other fiber arts, production efficiency, and design.

Khadi Oaxaca

Custom weaves of our handspun thread on floor looms. Or buy our standard fabrics and have us cut and sew your unique designs.

PAZA

PAZA supports the grass roots textile preservation movement in Independencia Bolivia by operating the Club de Artesanas, supporting the Centro de Artesania, Huancarani, and assisting the weavers in finding access to an external market.

Philis Alvic

I can help you evaluate your products for sale in different venues, design items using local skills and materials, and develop a marketing plan.

Sarah Saulson

A professional weaver, dyer and teacher, I have worked with producer groups on 3 continents and am eager to share my skills to empower artisan groups worldwide.

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Above the Fray: Traditional Hilltribe Art

Above the Fray leads small-group tours for textile enthusiasts to visit with and learn directly from traditional textile artists in hill tribe Laos and Vietnam. The cultural venture offers hands-on workshops led by regional, independent experts in their own villages.

Carol Hayman

See how artisans live in urban Lima and rural Ayacucho on the Peruvian Reality and Craft Tour. Customize your visit for your personal interest.

Marrakesh Express

My tours introduce you to the beautiful country of Morocco: warm people, gorgeous scenery, and delicious cuisine. Visit homes, workshops, and major sites.

Mayan Hands

Mayan Hands is fair trade non-profit organization dedicated to providing economic and educational opportunity to Mayan women artisans and their daughters in Guatemala.

Sharing the Dream in Guatemala

Learn about the Guatemala culture and the traditional craft techniques that make Guatemala famous. Meet the artisans and hear about their hopes and dreams.

Tours by Sharon

We offer small group tours focusing on culture/arts/textiles for those wanting a non-touristy “travel experience”. Various regions in Mexico and Guatemala.

Traditions Mexico Cultural Tours

Since 1997, crafting immersive tours into the diverse, wise, and ancient human world. Explore the traditional arts of deep Mexico, Peru and Morocco.

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