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Daniela Bustos Maya is a Mérida-based accessories label working with vintage 20th-century Mexican coins and Yucatán hammock-weaving techniques. The designer, who is Argentine-born, has built pieces around this craft for about a decade.
Daniela Bustos Maya is an accessories label based in Mérida, Mexico, built around two specific materials: original 20th-century Mexican coins and the woven threads traditionally used to make Yucatán hammocks. According to the designer's own account, published through NOT JUST A LABEL, the brand emerged roughly a decade ago from her family's weaving tradition, and grew into a collaboration with hammock artisans in Yucatán, working together to "rescue and use different weaving techniques" with thread produced locally in the region. The designer describes her own background as Argentine-born, and frames the brand explicitly as a way of honoring Mexico - the place that "received and accompanied her with love" - without erasing the influence of her life in Argentina and the rest of Latin America. That dual identity shows up directly in the work: pieces are designed to function as a wearable, symbolic connection to Mexican culture, built through techniques passed down across generations of hammock weavers rather than mass-manufactured accessory production. The brand sells directly through its own online store at danielabustosmaya.com.mx, alongside a designer profile on NOT JUST A LABEL, the international platform for emerging designers, which lists Mérida as her base and Mexico as her manufacturing home.