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Yabal featured in Handwoven Magazine!

Yabal
junio 12, 2017
Fair Trade, Guatemala, Meet the artisans

Excerpt from an article in Handwoven and Interweave magazines featuring Yabal Handicrafts: Weaving New Lives and Bringing New Hope February 23, 2017 | Author: Anita Osterhaug Mayan women say that the goddess Ixchel taught their people to weave at the dawn of time. Through millennia of struggle between rival groups, through the founding of a dynasty… View more

The meaning behind our name

Yabal
diciembre 8, 2016
Fair Trade, Guatemala, Uncategorized

Do you know what “Yabal” means? Yab’al is a K’iche’ word that literally means “a place that gives” which has the dual meaning in the k’iche’ language of “hope”. K’iche’ is an indigenous language spoken by Maya people in Guatemala, mostly in the central highlands region. Most of our women weavers speak K’iché as their first… View more

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The meaning behind our name