Mayan Embroidered Folk Art Tapestries (approx 17" x 17")
These
wonderful embroidered tapestries are folk art of today - where
traditional Mayan skills and themes have found a new medium of
expression. This project was started in 2001 by Ramelle Gonzoles,
the founder of Foundations
for Education a nonprofit organization which
provides financial and logistical assistance so that Maya youth can
obtain advanced education in Guatemala's secondary schools. She
started this embroidery project in a small aldea of Solola. with a
group of women of 30 called "Union Y Fuerza de Mujeres" (Women
United with Strength)from a small village called Panimatzalam
in the department of Sololá.
Ramelle was
talking with the mother of one of the Foundations students, Elma
Morales who will graduate this year as a Home Economic Teacher. Elma's
mother was working with a group of women and Ramelle suggested that
they do some embroideries with a Folk Art theme. Ramelle gave them a
sample made of different pieces of cloth. From this sample they have
come to make these beautiful folk art wall hangings or pillowcases.
All of them have the name and individual that made it on the backside
with the theme of the piece. The tapestries are approximately
18" by 18". Terra Experience is happy to help
by providing a fair trade retail outlet for these woman's art.
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