Cojolya online Shopping
Written by Marco
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28 November 2009
Posted in
Cojolya
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SPECIAL
CHRISTMAS
OFFER
15% OFF |
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Dear Cojolya Friends,
The Cojolya Association is rounding out 2009 with great news; our Marketplace has just been re-launched. We invite you tovisit the new site and see the richness of the textiles and design in each of our products.
The Holiday Season is just around the corner and we have a selection of perfect gift options for everyone on your list; gifts that offer not only style, quality and elegance, but an ethical conscience as well.
Each product is unique – hand woven on the ancient Mayan backstrap loom as an individual piece, by one of our fairly-paid Tzutujil women weavers. Each purchase helps a women and her family to achieve a more financially stable life and preserves this endangered traditional art form. |
All this at a special introduction offer of
15% off all our products*
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Cojolya is a Guatemalan non-profit association of Mayan women weavers from the Lake Atitlan village of Santiago. For over a quarter of a century it has been providing sustainable, fair-trade work for some 80 women, who weave using the backstrap loom.
Each product is meticulously designed by Candis E. Krummel fusing the skills and techniques of the Mayan backstrap loom with color, form, texture and movement, whilst using only the finest threads and beads.
Each weaver is acknowledged on our hang tags and soon we will have profiles about each of our artisans on our website, so you will be able learn more about exactly who wove your accessory.
We invite you to
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to receive Cojolya news and further offers. We are eager to know your thoughts and comments on Cojolya, our products and social programs.
Please be sure to forward this email to family, friends and colleagues who share your appreciation for beautiful, quality designer textiles and gifts made by fairly-paid artisans.
Enjoy the Holiday Season with Cojolya and spread the word!
Best wishes, |
Candis Krummel
Creative Designer |
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Francesca Wade
Administrator |
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Cojolya Association
Santiago Atitlan
Guatemala
* Our Special offer of 15% discount applies to all our
merchandise in the Marketplace and is
valid until December 31, 2009. |
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Candis,
I am sure that you do not remember me but I enjoyed a lovely lunch in your garden and a tour of your home.
Even more impressive is the work that you are doing for the women of Atitlan.
I wore my wonderful woven handbag, the green one with loops and cross weave of natural sisal (?) into a shop yesterday and the elderly woman who owns the shop so admired the handbag that I decided I needed to buy it for her. Possible?
You one had a website that shows this bag, but I can't find the photo. However, I think there can't be another lime-green bag woven with a natural color. It has a strap for wearing over the shoulder, but the strap can come off for a hand-carrying bag. Any other information needed?
Yes. The cost of the bag. And what will you charge to ship it to Los Angeles?
It is possible that Sue Patterson, a friend and colleague in WINGS, might be coming north this summer-fall. But let's find out first if you have the bag and if it is in my range to gift a lovely old gal (86) who still likes fashion. Yeah for her!
Best wishes, Melinda Barth
(Did your son get his fish farm up and running?)