Heritage Collection
Artisan Stories
Behind every piece is a person, a family, a village, and a tradition. These are their stories.
Filmed in Chicholom, Guatemala · Languages: Ixil Maya & Spanish
Clemencia
Backstrap Loom Weaver · Chicholom, Guatemala
Clemencia learned to weave at fourteen years old — and she learned entirely on her own. Her first piece was a simple cloth, a servilleta, woven on a backstrap loom in the courtyard of her home in Chicholom, a small Ixil Maya village in the highlands of Guatemala. That first cloth led to a lifetime of practice.
She speaks Ixil, her mother tongue, a Mayan language of the Ixil Triangle — one of the most linguistically and culturally distinct regions of Guatemala. When she weaves, she works in silence, her body providing the tension for the loom, her hands moving through the warp threads with the ease of someone who has done this tens of thousands of times.
The textiles Clemencia creates — narrow belts, huipiles, and decorative straps — carry the geometric vocabulary of Ixil cosmology. Black grounds with bands of red, purple, and green are not aesthetic choices; they are a language. Watching her work, you understand that the loom is not a tool. It is a conversation with everything that came before her.
Our Commitment
Craft Worth Keeping.
Stories Worth Passing Down.
We believe in fair trade and fair value — for the weavers, the leatherworkers, and every artisan whose hands shape what we carry. Our commitment is simple: to support their craft, honor their traditions, and ensure that what they create reaches people who will truly value it. The pieces we bring to you are not decorative. They are generational. They carry the history of the communities that made them, and they are built to last long enough to become part of your story too — something you pass down, something that holds meaning across generations, far beyond the hands that first wove it.