WARP’s Artisan Direct Connect is a directory of resources offered by our members.
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 who offer services to help grassroots economies that depend on making textiles. Browse the directory below to learn more!
Please note: Information about an organization or service in this resource listing does not constitute an endorsement. WARP Professional Members are able to list their resources here, but WARP does not have a formal vetting process.
If you are a WARP member and you’d like your business, organization or service to be added to the directory, please complete our submission form.
Retail
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.
Artisans Beyond Borders
Artisans Beyond Borders addresses trauma, restores grace and agency, and provides income for asylum-seekers and their families stranded at the U.S.-MX port of entry.
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
Baskets of Africa
Baskets of Africa provides long term, sustainable living wages to compensate weavers in Africa for their beautiful work and to support their families.
ClothRoads, a Global Textile Marketplace
ClothRoads creates opportunities for supporting indigenous textile artisans worldwide.
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.
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.
Kakaw Designs
Partnering with over a dozen local artisan groups around Guatemala, we create unique designs by combining a variety of regional handmade traditions.
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.
Khushi Kantha (Happy Blanket)
Khushi Kantha partners with mothers in Bangladesh to make sustainable, hand-stitched, multi-purpose baby blankets, bags and more – all of products are ‘embroidered with empowerment’.
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.
Local Cloth
Local Cloth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing the fiber economy in the Appalachian region of the US located in Western North Carolina. We proudly include farmers, fiber artists, mills, garment designers and makers among our members.
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 the beautiful handmade home and fashion accessories crafted by the Maya Mam Weaving Cooperative from Cajola, Guatemal.
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.
Mekeka Designs
Mekeka Design is a bespoke textile studio in Uganda and US, collaborating with master artisans to weave stories through nature-based textiles using indigenous fibers.
Mekong River Textiles
Working with village-based handweavers, dyers and needlecrafters since 1980 Mekong River Textiles brings the world of Thai, Lao and Cambodian textile arts to you.
MitiMeth
MitiMeth transforms invasive plant fibers and agricultural waste into handwoven textiles, home décor, gifts, accessories and empowers artisans while promoting heritage techniques and circular design.
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.
PAZA
PAZA began as a 2007 Peace Corps project and continues as a collaboration between the Bolivian weavers and foreign supporters.
Queen Amina Embroidery
In 1994, twenty-five excellent women embroiderers in Zaria City, Nigeria, came together to form the organization, Queen Amina Embroidery, that provides an outlet for their work.
Sam Elkins Textiles
A working fiber artist focusing on contemporary pieces, using naturally sourced fibers.
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, wholesale, and online.
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.
Textiles Live
Textiles Live leads hands-on tours to Gujarat, India, to meet and workshop with textile artisan designers and design school graduates.
THREADS Documentary Film
An award-winning film inspired by a visionary artist in Bangladesh who shares her skills and changes lives.
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.
Y’abal Handicrafts
Ethical + Handwoven textiles by master women artisans in Guatemala. Offering custom design + private label. Profits fund programs for Mayan women.
Zikuri
Ancestral wisdom & alchemy secrets combine to tell stories through natural dye education & ethically made accessories. Our impetus is to inspire everyday. We are based in Mexico City.
Wholesale
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.
Baskets of Africa
Baskets of Africa provides long term, sustainable living wages to compensate weavers in Africa for their beautiful work and to support their families.
Kakaw Designs
Partnering with over a dozen local artisan groups around Guatemala, we create unique designs by combining a variety of regional handmade traditions.
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.
Khushi Kantha (Happy Blanket)
Khushi Kantha partners with mothers in Bangladesh to make sustainable, hand-stitched, multi-purpose baby blankets, bags and more – all of products are ‘embroidered with empowerment’.
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.
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.
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.
Mekeka Designs
Mekeka Design is a bespoke textile studio in Uganda and US, collaborating with master artisans to weave stories through nature-based textiles using indigenous fibers.
MitiMeth
MitiMeth transforms invasive plant fibers and agricultural waste into handwoven textiles, home décor, gifts, accessories and empowers artisans while promoting heritage techniques and circular design.
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 began as a 2007 Peace Corps project and continues as a collaboration between the Bolivian weavers and foreign supporters.
Schacht Spindle Company
Schacht Spindle Company crafts weaving looms and spinning equipment that are sought after by creators and fiber artisans from around the world.
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, wholesale, and online.
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.
THREADS Documentary Film
An award-winning film inspired by a visionary artist in Bangladesh who shares her skills and changes lives.
Y’abal Handicrafts
Ethical + Handwoven textiles by master women artisans in Guatemala. Offering custom design + private label. Profits fund programs for Mayan women.
Services
Artisans Beyond Borders
Artisans Beyond Borders, a binational initiative, facilitates and preserves cultural and familial Arts crafted by asylum-seekers at the Arizona/Mexico border and beyond
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.
Espace Fann
Espace Fann is a creative space based in Beirut, Lebanon, offering university-level courses in art and design at affordable rates.
Fabriulous
Fabriulous works as a creative solution to the problems in the fashion sector and the marginalized artisan community by creating an unique craft sourcing service.
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.
Kakaw Designs
Create unique designs together with our network of 12+ local artisan groups in Guatemala. We’ll guide you through the process step by step.
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.
Mekeka Designs
Mekeka Design is a bespoke textile studio in Uganda and US, collaborating with master artisans to weave stories through nature-based textiles using indigenous fibers.
MitiMeth
MitiMeth transforms invasive plant fibers and agricultural waste into handwoven textiles, home décor, gifts, accessories and empowers artisans while promoting heritage techniques and circular design.
Oaxaca Cultural Navigator LLC
We match designers, retailers and wholesalers with artisans to develop product and markets in a culturally sensitive approach to honoring indigenous traditions, and facilitate your buying experience.
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, Handweaver
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.
Sardinian Arts
Your personal connection to exquisite Sardinia handwoven textile art and the women who create it. Offering presentations, cultural tours, occasional trunk shows, location services, and more.
Tunnizze Creation
We are passionate about changing the world of the next generation with yarns and supporting their thinking with their hands.
Zikuri
Ancestral wisdom & alchemy secrets combine to tell stories through natural dye education. We offer online & live workshops. Our impetus is to inspire everyday. We are based in Mexico City.
Tours
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.
E.Y.H.O. Tours
Small expert-led group tours for a deep exploration of textiles and material culture of traditional societies around the world.
Kakaw Designs
Connecting international creatives with local artisan groups for mutually-beneficial experiences through in-person and online workshops as well as travel itineraries in Guatemala.
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.
Oaxaca Cultural Navigator LLC
Small group textile tours take you to remote Mexican weaving and artisan villages in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Michoacán and more. We go deep to give you connection, understanding, and an amazing personal experience.
Sardinian Arts
Tour Sardinia with Sardinian Arts. Experience the beauty, nature, culture, and textiles of Sardinia in small group tours designed for textile lovers and cultural enthusiasts.
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, wholesale, and online.
Textile Tours led by Dr. Linda S. McIntosh
Southeast Asian Textile expert Dr. Linda S. McIntosh and local experts lead tours to meet and learn from gifted textile artisans in Southeast Asia.
Textile Trails
Travel with Wendy and a small group of textile enthusiasts for an immersive experience in Bhutanese culture. Specializing in hands-on learning opportunities with local artisans.
Textiles Live
Textiles Live leads hands-on tours to Gujarat, India, to meet and workshop with textile artisan designers and design school graduates.
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.
If you are a WARP member and you’d like your business, organization or service to be added to the directory, please complete our submission form.
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