This program provides our artisans with the income they need, a creative and productive outlet, business skills, and helps build a community as they share their stories through their manual work. The sale of these handicrafts helps our artisans to support their families while they work to achieve self-sufficiency. Our artisans design and create the items. We provide the training, supplies, tools and opportunities to proudly showcase your immense talents and abilities.
We preserve the cultural traditions and craftsmanship of our artisans by providing only 100% handmade products. Camaxtl is made up of 13 artisans in San Bernardino Contla in Tlaxcala, Mexico. They masterfully weave beautiful sarapes using traditional techniques and designs that originate in the Saltillo community. Camaxtl helps these artisans to find an outlet for their products and reach a wider audience.
By making sarapes, artisans can earn income and preserve a cultural heritage that connects them to their roots. ATA offers an experiential workshop to help artisans understand the advantages of associations and of turning democracy into leadership. Artisan women practice a technique of weaving on a loom with straps on the back and infusing traditions with modern techniques. Makra supports talented artisans who are socially and economically underserved by providing them with decent work, a sustainable income, a means to preserve the craft arts, and essential training and resources.
WomenCraft is a social enterprise and member of the World Fair Trade Organization that works with more than 300 artisans. Naguska provides training and technical support so that artisans can learn their craft and increase the quality of their products and, therefore, of their lives. The group of artisans applies environmentally friendly principles to create this glassware. The organization collects glass locally in the Greater Cairo area of Egypt and recycles and reuses raw materials to create beautiful hand-blown glass items.
Artisans practice artisanal forms transmitted from generation to generation or learned in response to an environmental surplus. Artisans practice a traditional weaving technique from the Hangaza culture, weaving in the tri-border region between Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi. Aid to Artisans (ATA) is a division of Creative Learning, a non-profit organization based in Washington DC. Artisans practice unique artisanal traditions, carved in stone and inlays, to create marble tables and coasters.
The Little Market is committed to sharing the beauty and complexity of these traditions and to celebrating the extraordinary skills of artisans. Kara Weaves is a social enterprise based in Kerala (India) and supports artisan weavers who are members of cooperatives and designers of contemporary home textiles. The grants are intended to allow artisan groups to purchase materials, tools, equipment, training and marketing services to expand employment and generate income.
