Meet  a producer:
Julia Dias Domingo from Huehuetenango, Guatemala
27 years old.

“My family has worked with Trama Textiles for 16 years. At the moment it is my mother, me and two of my sisters who makes products that we bring to the store.
We also work on a vegetable farm and we sell our weavings to get some extra money. We can’t go to town very often to sell our products because it costs 50 quetzales for each person, and that is to much money.

I started school when I was 6 years old and finished when I was 14. At school I learned to speak spanish, and that is why it is me who goes to the store with our products. My fourth sister who is 12 years old is probably going to work with weaving in the future, just like us. That is why she is coming to the store with me, so that she can get to know everybody there.
Neither one of us will study at the university, it is to far away from our village and we cant afford to live in the city.
These textiles took about 18 days to weave. It takes a long time because we have to weave outdoors since there is’nt enough room to weave indoors, so when it rains we cant weave. When the rainy season starts we can’t work with our back strap looms becasue it rains every day after lunch."