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Martin Ratzan, a Tz'utuhil Maya artist from Santiago Atitlán, in his tienda in Panajachel. A talented naive artist, Martin found selling textiles more lucrative than painting.

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Textile authorities Margo Blum Shevill and Tim Wells offer a service that can catalogue all or part of your collection. It will give you the peace of mind of knowing what you have collected is recorded for present or future use.

Cataloging includes:

Detailed Written documention includes item description and condition, materials used, techiniques, dating, size and provenance.
Research and cross references to similiar (previously published ) pieces available.
All items will be photographically recorded using transparencies, prints, or digitally.
Documentation services can be customized to fit your needs

Contact:
Margot Blum Schevill (510) 845-2802 or email: mschevill@aol.com
A Tim Wells (415) 609-7137 or email: textiletraditions@mindspring.com

Endangered Threads Documentaries has produced their first DVD narrated by textile expert Margot Blum Schevill about the Maya weavers of Guatemala. Unlike most documentaries about weaving which concentrate on a few individuals, this one has footage of and commentary by many weavers from different communities.

Maya Traditions is a fair trade business working with weaving co-operatives in Guatemala. They provide hand woven contemporary clothes of Maya design for both the wholesale and retail markets. The photo is of a weaving collective of San Juan la Laguna.

Maya Traditions
3922 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94112, (415) 587-2172
mayatrad@earthlink.net
www.mayatraditions.com

Indigena Imports is the best source for the most beautiful, highest quality traditional Maya traje available in the United States. If you want the finest, Indigena Imports is the one. They also carry contemporary style clothes for the western market which are made of hand woven Maya fabrics.

Indigena Imports
David & Sally Hamilton
2303 Balboa Road. Austin TX 78733.
(512) 263-1677
www.huipils.com
dh@cnn.com

Cooperative of Displaced Artisans of Polho

"We are displaced women in the autonomous municipality of San Pedro Polho, Chiapis. We have no land to grow our food. We are surrounded by soldiers. We feed our children by selling our weavings. We weave the traditional designs from our Maya communities in the area of Chenalho Chiapas"

This is a fair trade cooperative. Weavings available wholesale or retail.
(415) 647-8126
carolioness@sbcglobal.net

Terra Experience specializes in hand-woven ethnic doll clothes from Guatemala and a few other countries. They also carry Guatemalan textiles, books and less expensive paintings (as compared to Arte Maya Tz'utuhil's paintings). They carry crafts and other fun and education things from Guatemala and markets of the world.

Terra Experience
2140 Regent St.
Madison, WI 53726
(608) 231-1247
lynn@terraexperience.com

Nim Po't sells Maya traje on consignment both in its store in Antigua Guatemala and on its website. If you want to find out what the traje of a particular Maya town in Guatemala looks like this is the place to find out. They have thousands of pieces for sale at any one time and all of the traje is arranged by town.

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San Antonio Textiles

To contact us write: Arte Maya Tz'utuhil, P.O. Box 40391, San Francisco, CA 94140. Telephone: (415) 282-7654. Email me at