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Skull NECKPIECE / SCARF

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Skull NECKPIECE / SCARF

£245.00

design by MARGARITA CANTÚ, executed by textile artisans in Chiapas.


MATERIAL: 100% cotton, handwoven on a backstrap loom, by artisans in Chiapas.

Currently, there is only one piece each available. These pieces are very unique as it takes one artisan a week to do one scarf.

NECKPIECES: SIZE: : L: 96 x W: 39cm // 37.79 x 15.35 in

The neckpieces are joined together and you pull them over your head. Ideal for cycling or on the motorbike or scooter. A piece you’ll definitely never lose while riding.

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This is from a mesmerising and exclusive range of handwoven scarves and neckpieces, by designer Margarita Cantú, made by highly skilled artisans in Chiapas with their rich textile tradition. There are many villages in Chiapas, each of those having different nuances and traditions in their textile techniques and skills.

One scarf takes approximately one week to do. They are worked on backstrap looms.

This is an important social design project by the designer, where the intention is to preserve the rich textile skills in those villages for the next generations to come. All scarves are fairtrade with artisans being paid top and fair fees. The project is destined to create an ecosystem to preserve skills, conserve indigenous societies, nourish their environments, and make them sustainable for the future.

It has become a huge problem all over Mexico, and also in Chiapas that Chinese production has come in to mimic handmade artisanal making and has sadly already eroded a lot of traditional artisanal crafts. For artisans, it has become easier to buy cheap Chinese fakes, rather than produce their own pieces in days and weeks of work. Here we have a social design project that supports those communities and the generations-old craft traditions and fights the erosion through fakes.