Ethical Fashion Brand Our Story

Ethical Fashion Brand Our Story

Ethical Fashion Brand | Our Story Ethical Fashion Guatemala is a Brand based in Panajachel, Guatemala supporting Maya artisans and their handmade creations. The Maya associated with the use of color as follows.

Maze or the corn they grow has four colors, black, white, yellow, and tan. In their belief, the four colors of corn represent the color of all people’s skin in the world.

The Textile colors based on the village colors the woman wears. Flowers, herbs, roots, and Insects used to dye the cotton, found locally.

The Weavers do not travel far distances. Only recently, Weavers have started to reach out father in search of bright natural color dyeing materials from other parts of Guatemala and into Mexico.

Ethical Fashion Brand | Our Story

Knowledge of how to dye is another; we have weavers in the north of Guatemala that only have White finished products. Never use dyes, or for a better explanation as simple as it is, no abundance of Flowers, herbs, roots, and Insects to produce the dye compounds. Bananas for the stump used for setting the dye during the process.

How they are able to achieve the colors from Natural Dyes is an art form. You pick this plant on a full moon, this insect makes brilliant reds, and yes, they are constant in reproducing the same color repeatedly.

You mention how product colors had changed based on more of an American market trend. I would tend to disagree; these are fakes or designers attempting to offer consumers the trendy colors of the year, nothing to do with the originals or the culture producing them.

Ethical Fashion Brand | Our Story

We have been working on a Line of our own products, mostly bags of all kinds. Been a challenge, had to produce patterns, they had no idea what to do with them, got over that, styles, or the look wanting to remain in the culture color combinations to use.

Wanting to get away from that Hupile look, we see every place for Mayan Textiles. See the attached picture of a Diaper bag. June everything will go online. The next is handmade beauty products I know a crowded space. Another Mayan cultural note is they make all their own beauty products.

A year ago, I toured an American woman from New York named Emily wanting to start her own line of beauty products natural beauty products, lotion, oils, and creams.

Emily loved the products, pure and all from local sources finally Emily got the story part of who, how, and from what the products were made from. However, Emily wanted to put these products in environmentally bad containers Plastic and the like.

That is our Ethical Fashion Brand.