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4ta Calle Oriente #3B / Online
Colibrí's Antigua store carries woven tableware, accessories and bed-and-corridor textiles in a contemporary presentation. Ordering and shipping information are available through its site.
Best for Contemporary woven Guatemalan textiles for home and personal use
Antigua
Hilosophy makes handmade textile products meant for the home and for days at the beach. The shop gives its address as 5a Avenida Norte 33 in La Antigua Guatemala.
Best for Textiles
Antigua Guatemala / Online
Jade Maya has mined, cut and polished jadeite in Guatemala since 1974, with Guatemalan craftspeople carrying forward the carving traditions the company set out to revive. Museum replicas, one-of-a-kind pieces and Maya day-sign jewellery create a direct place-to-product connection rooted in local stone and craft.
Best for Guatemalan jadeite, Maya replicas and day-sign jewelry
Jade Maya was founded in 1974 by archaeologist Mary Lou Ridinger and her husband Jay Ridinger, who came to Guatemala to solve an archaeological problem. They wanted to know what had become of the jade sources used by the Maya and six other ancient civilizations over three thousand years. That year they rediscovered the deposits along the tectonic plate boundary that runs east to west through central Guatemala. Samples sent to the Gemological Institute of America confirmed jadeite, which is the harder and rarer of the two jades. Instead of exporting rough stone, the Ridingers chose to restart a carving industry that had been lost at the Spanish Conquest. They built a factory in September 1974 and trained descendants of the Maya to carve replicas of ancient treasures. The company now describes some 63,000 square feet of factory and showroom space with a museum. Over 300 Guatemalans earn a living from mining and carving jade, and from selling it. Everything is cut and polished in-house, from museum-quality replicas to jewellery in lavender jade and Olmec blue jade. Finished pieces go straight to the showroom at 4a Calle Oriente No. 34 in Antigua Guatemala, one of eight shops in the country. In March 1999 President Bill Clinton spent two hours in the factory and showroom, and a percentage of web sales supports scholarships through the Maya Conservancy.
Antigua
K Marina Designs handcrafts ethical leather goods in Antigua Guatemala, working with skilled artisans in Pastores under the mission of empowering artisans, preserving tradition and designing with purpose. It supports indigenous textile cooperatives with natural dyes and funds microloans and education programs for local communities.
Best for Ethical handcrafted leather goods
Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
Kakaw Designs works directly with weavers, dyers, embroiderers and leatherworkers across Guatemala to make bags, clothing, home goods and jewellery from handwoven textiles. From its Antigua studio it also runs weaving and natural-dye workshops.
Best for Handwoven Guatemalan textiles and bags
Antigua Guatemala / Online
Mayan Boutique sells handmade Guatemalan textiles from a family shop near the Arc Street in Antigua Guatemala. Family members weave the cloth using techniques passed down through generations, and women from neighbouring villages also supply designs. Everything is made by hand from 100% cotton and 100% leather, from clothing to bedspreads.
Best for Guatemalan artisanal fashion and textiles showcasing the country's multiethnic and multicultural artistic
Mayan Boutique is a family textile business in Antigua Guatemala, located near the Arc Street at 3a Calle Poniente. Each textile is handmade by members of the family, who learned the craft in childhood at home and pass the knowledge from generation to generation. Cloth becomes clothing and costumes as well as decorations and shoes, and the range extends to bags and bedspreads, to cushion covers and to table decorations and jewelry. The shop describes its work as a social responsibility. Beyond the family, it invites women from neighbouring villages to present their textile designs and earn an income from them. The stated goal is to conserve the heritage of Maya art by using the same techniques and traditions, so every product is made entirely by hand. Materials are limited to 100% leather and 100% cotton in natural colour. The boutique presents itself as an artistic and cultural representation of Guatemala, with textiles full of life and colour. An online shop ships the same pieces abroad, and the family also lists handmade organic colours and Christmas items among its categories.
Antigua Guatemala
Founded in 2012, this Antigua studio takes its name from the Maya underworld phrase for "the place where stones are born," and its jewelers carve jade alongside gold and silver metalwork for rings, cuffs, and earrings. The workshop deliberately leaves tool marks and irregularities visible in the finished pieces, treating that texture as evidence of the hand behind the work, and also teaches jade-carving classes to visitors.
Best for Contemporary jade, gold, and silver jewelry
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