- 50+ ORDERS
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- 13 YEARS ON NOTHS
Casa Textil
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About
We develop, produce and retail, high quality, hand made products in collaboration with artisans across the highlands of Chiapas, Southern Mexico.
Casa Textil is purpose driven business, offering unique hand woven and hand embroidered accessories for people that like to know who made their clothes and how they were made, and for people who like to wear art not just look at it.
We mix traditional weaving and embroidery techniques with modern design and the best materials we can find, to make beautiful products that work in the modern world. All the while looking for ways we can improve the balance between the makers, middlemen, and you.
After 4 years selling mainly out of our shop in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, we’re launching a small selection of products here on NOTHS - Ponchos, Pashminas, Infinity scarves, and a scarf/hat combo. Each piece on offer was made at home by one of the 120 artisans we work with, and each piece is 100% handmade - hand woven on a backstrap loom, and then hand embroidered to finish.
Ancient techniques meet modern design.
If you’ve never heard of a backstrap loom then please have a look at the production photos. In short - it’s an ancient technique that over the past 2000+ years has survived across the highlands of southern Mexico, and evolved into a diverse variety of styles, all created from the same basic tools.
In this initial selection you can see and buy products from 5 of the communities we work with, Pantelho, Cancuc, Yochib, Aldama and Zinacantan. So have a look at the different styles on offer, and if you want to know more you’ll find more details on each of the product pages.