Ethical Fashion Brand Guatemala

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The words and terms above did not exist on many websites in Guatemala until Ethical Fashion Guatemala was featured for their work of protecting Guatemala Artisans Designs. https://fashionista.com/2017/08/guatemalan-artists-etsy-copyright-infringement

Imagine you’re a weaver or leather-worker in Guatemala. You labor intensely over a product — let’s say a bag featuring textiles unique to your heritage — and sell it to an American tourist for $35. It’s worth a good deal more, you think, but the American drives a hard bargain and considering 65 percent of your nation lives below the poverty line, something is always better than nothing. You make the sale.

A few months later, you stumble across the bag you made selling online for nearly $300 on an American website that claims to be benefitting artisans like yourself. The website may feature a picture of yourself that you never gave the visiting tourist permission to take or use, or it may feature a picture of a weaver you’ve never met from another village.

It’s a maddening scenario, but unfortunately, one that’s extremely common for a group of skilled craftspeople whose work is in high demand on a global scale, but whose access and knowledge about how to create their own e-commerce avenues has been lacking.

Today from NGO’s to every Woman selling Guatemala Textiles online are Ethical websites. In their own words, of course, how does one actually check or how sites are monitored, they are not. They the owners create their own story to appeal to the online masses that follow them.

A few of these websites have huge Facebook and Instagram followers purchased followers, not real followers. For most, you see large followers you as a consumer feel wow this must be the real deal, honest and Ethical Sustainable websites. A simple way to tell if Facebook followers have been purchased is to look at the likes and shares of posts. Only a few when you have 17,000 followers is a great indication.

Before you buy from any site clamming to Ethical or Sustainable ask to talk with the Artisans directly. All Ethical Fashion Guatemala Artisans are on Facebook and WhatsApp. If you cannot reach or talk with an Artisan directly move on.