Artisan Textile Resource Guide - 2016

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 updated exclusive 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. 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 presents handwoven, naturally dyed silk, cotton, and hemp textiles selected from independent artisans, and from village markets in the hilltribe regions of Laos and Vietnam.

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 cultural heritage in Peru and to promote social welfare in Andean communities through sponsorship of cultural programs by selling Peruvian art and crafts.

Bebali Foundation

The Bebali Foundation works with indigenous weavers in remote, underdeveloped villages across Indonesia, to incubate community businesses, responsibly manage natural-dye resources, and nurture traditional culture.

Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco

The Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996, when the textile traditions in the Cusco region of the Andes were in danger of disappearing.

ClothRoads, a Global Textile Marketplace

ClothRoads is your gateway to a world of authentic textile culture. Here you’ll nd folk textiles, accessories, fabric, and ber materials from many corners of the globe, along with stories of indigenous artisans and ancient techniques used in both traditional and modern ways.

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 collaborates primarily with women throughout the developing world to produce exquisite home textiles and personal accessories

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.

Fusion De Maya: Marjorie Durko Puryear, HANDWOVENS

As a textile artist, product designer, and collector of indigenous textiles, I focus on fine craftsmanship and indigenous textile tradition

Grupo Ecologico Teixchel (Asociacion de Artesanas de Tejidos Ecologicos)

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.

ibu

Ibu is a collection of luxurious women’s garments and home décor handcrafted by global women artisans.

Industrious Anarchy

Industrious Anarchy is a social-conscious enterprise promoting eco-friendly production of textiles via an online marketplace, on-site workshops, and collaborations with farmers and producers of textile goods.

Little Silk Road Shop

The Little Silk Road Shop has strong ties in Central Asia gained by establishing reliable contacts with officials and cooperating closely with artisans, craft persons, workshops, and manufacturers.

Marrakesh Express

Giving Moroccan women access to a world market by selling their weaving online, thereby retaining more profit as they bypass the middleman, is my focus.

Mayan Hands

The mission of Mayan Hands, a nonprofit, fair-trade organization, is to empower Guatemalan Mayan women artisans in their quest to bring their families out of extreme poverty while maintaining the culture they cherish.

Partners for Just Trade

Partners for Just Trade (PJT) is a fair-trade, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships between artisans in need and consumers in the United States.

Queen Amina Embroidery

The Hausa people of northern Nigeria are renowned for embroidery of voluminous robes known as babban riga.

Threads of Life

Threads of Life is a fair-trade gallery in Ubud, Indonesia, that works directly with over a thousand weavers on twelve islands across Indonesia.

Thrums Books

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.

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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Katyi Ya’a: Taller Colectivo de Algodón Nativo

Katyi Ya’a is a young, multi-generational organization run collectively in the indigenous Mixteco village on the coast of Oaxaca.

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 is the volunteer work of Dorinda Dutcher and supporters who help Andean weavers preserve their weaving heritage and care for their families with the sales of their craft.

Schacht Spindle Co.

Established in 1969, Schacht is a full-service weaving and spinning supplier. Manufacturer of the award-winning Cricket Loom, innovative folding travel Sidekick Spinning Wheel, Ultra Umbrella Swift, and the new Zoom Loom—4/4 pin loom.

Y’abal Handicrafts

Y’abal Handicrafts is a Guatemalan, fair-trade business that supports two women’s cooperatives of indigenous backstrap weavers through the sale of our textiles and embroideries.

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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.

Anush Mirbegian

With ten years of experience working independently in the contemporary and high-end fashion industry, I provide design and creative services including product development, market research, graphic and marketing support, styling and presentation ideas, and collaborative projects.

Carol Hayman

During a Peruvian Reality and Craft Tour you will spend a few days in Lima visiting museums and craftspeople. The hospitable artisans invite you into their homes so you can see how

Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco

The Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996, when the textile traditions in the Cusco region of the Andes were in danger of disappearing.

Cloth Conspiracy

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

Connecting with Young Members

Nicole Giacomantonio, our young WARP member from Nova Scotia, shares her experience at the annual meeting in Decorah, her reasons for embracing our group of textile enthusiasts and her hopes for the future…Judy Newland An Adventure in Iowa Iowa was beautiful, and Decorah was truthfully a place I never expected to find myself. I thought […]

Cultural Cloth

Cultural Cloth collaborates primarily with women throughout the developing world to produce exquisite home textiles and personal accessories

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.

Dr. Lin Hightower

I am a professor at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta with an MFA in Fibers and doctorate in Art Education. I have served as an artist and art product designer for low-income artisans in Turkey, Nepal, India, Thailand, Egypt, Morocco, and Peru.

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.

Jackie Abrams

I am interested in helping to develop small craft industries within communities in need. The technical assistance I offer may include teaching, producing goods, and marketing.

Jackie Corlett, Motif

Working with artisan groups having growing pains is my best fit. Since 1989, I have lived and worked with artisans, providing a healthy training ground.

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.

Joan Noble – Noble Journeys

We offer creative, enlightening, and delicious journeys to Morocco, Peru, Italy, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Mongolia, and more.

Karen Searle

Repair and restoration of precious heirloom textiles: specializing in knit, crochet, lace, beaded bags.

Local Cloth

Our mission is to support and sustain the regional fiber and textile arts economy and professions through collaboration, education, and innovation.

Marrakesh Express

Giving Moroccan women access to a world market by selling their weaving online, thereby retaining more profit as they bypass the middleman, is my focus.

Mayan Hands

The mission of Mayan Hands, a nonprofit, fair-trade organization, is to empower Guatemalan Mayan women artisans in their quest to bring their families out of extreme poverty while maintaining the culture they cherish.

Philis Alvic

I can help you evaluate your products for the market in the United States and design items using local skills and materials.

PUCHKA Peru

We are a small service company built upon fair/ ethical-trade ideals. Our purpose is to share some of the extraordinary, fascinating, and magical history, sites, textiles, folk art, and traditions of Peru via tours.

Sarah Saulson

I am available to provide design and weaving support and consultation to producer groups.

Textiles and Economic Development in Ghana

This month Jackie Abrams is our guest blogger. She writes about her work with textiles and economic development in Ghana and how it has impacted her basketry. My earliest recollection of being intrigued with Africa was in 3rd or 4th grade. I built an African village as a class project. I remember one of the […]

Tia Stephanie Tours – Cultural Journeys

Our tours focus on natural dyeing and ikat dye resist, and the weaving techniques woven on backstrap and pedal looms, such as brocade, gauze, and tapestry.

Tinkuy 2017: A Gathering of Textile Arts in Cusco

Tinkuy 2017, celebrated in Cusco, Peru from November 8 until November 11, began with the much anticipated parade from the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco to the Convention Centre, where the meeting was to be held. The colorful display of tradition and exuberance was clearly felt far beyond those attending the meeting. Citizens of […]

Traditions Mexico Cultural Journeys

Traditions Mexico has been creating pioneering cultural tours focused on indigenous textiles and lifeways in southern Mexico since 1996. Our tours introduce you to the people and places of another land, another way, and another pace.

Traveling Textile Stories Can Weave A Real Peace

Do you ever wonder why we textile folks love to travel the world in search of the chance to meet other textile makers and lovers? What can be accomplished by passing on the techniques of creating cloth and sharing stories with new artisans we meet? Travel offers a bridge to understanding culture through textiles and […]

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