by Kelsey Wiskirchen & Deborah Chandler NOTA: PUEDE LEER LA VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL MÁS ABAJO It’s December, the end of another great year for Weave A Real Peace – maybe its best ever! So we want to blow our own horns – which are YOUR horns, since this is an organization that is absolutely by … Read more
By Yasmine Dabbous, PhD. NOTA: PUEDE LEER LA VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL MÁS ABAJO Note: Names and other details about the students were altered to protect their privacy. Six women sat around the table looking at me. I had just announced the end of our embroidery session. No one moved. “We don’t want to leave,” Fadia … Read more
by Deborah Chandler NOTA: PUEDE LEER LA VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL MÁS ABAJO We can pretty well surmise that, in general, WARP members are readers. But do you realize how many are also writers? When I first came back onto the board in May of 2021, one of my simple ideas went something like this: Hey, … Read more
Our April blog introduces you to a new board member and two nominees. Janice G Knausenberger will fulfill the term left open by the resignation of Devik Wyman. Mariana Mace and Carrie Miller have been nominated to run for two open board positions and if approved by the membership in June, both will serve on … Read more
ON THE ROAD People who love textiles love to travel because of the many opportunities to learn and experience culture through textiles and textile traditions. Traveling is one way to create or be a part of a connected textile community like WARP. But when travel is not possible, you can often connect to textile communities … Read more
For many of us a whole new world opens up when we travel. Weave A Real Peace helped two young Maya women, Claudia Pérez Pérez and Celia Arias Pérez travel from Chenalhó, Chiapas to Oaxaca for the annual meeting in June. This was only the second trip for both young women outside of Chiapas and … Read more
This is a guest post on slow clothing by author and textile collector Sheri Brautigam. The concept of slow clothing – hand-made artisan clothing – has been a reality for most of the world until very recently. Commercial goods either weren’t available or too expensive for people in developing countries to buy, so making your … Read more
Recently the Cooperativa de Alfombras de Mujeres Maya en Guatemala (Maya Women’s Rug Hooking Cooperative of Guatemala) was accepted into the 2014 International Folk Art Market, July 11 – 14. We spoke to one of their delegates to this year’s market. Reyna Pretzantzin is thirty-one years old and attends Rafael Landivar University studying for her bachelor’s degree in Business … Read more