Stories from Around the Globe

Reconnecting and Visiting with Rug Hooking Artisans in Guatemala

Written by Mary Anne Wise Mary Anne Wise, Co-Founder of Cultural Cloth, is traveling in Guatemala this week. As always, she is multi-tasking. She is teaching an embroidery workshop. She is working...

New Workshops at Multicolores

Written by Mary Anne Wise Designing, Stitching & Constructing Embroidered Dolls in Guatemala Yesterday, was our day long Embroidery Workshop. This is the third workshop that we have taught in G...

Meet Some of the Guatemalan Embroidery Artisans

Written by Mary Anne Wise This fall I have been co-leading a project to teach embroidery to a new group of women who live near Panajachel Guatemala.  It has been an amazing experience for me and t...

Second Report: Embroidery Workshop

Written by Mary Anne Wise The following is an insiders accounting of the recent Embroidery Workshop in Guatemala as told by the teacher, Mary Anne Wise, Founder of Cultural Cloth. The primary obje...

First Report: Embroidery Project, One Stitch at a Time to Support Families

Written by Mary Anne Wise At Cultural Cloth a crucial part of our mission is to help our sister artisans around the world develop better ways to support their families. Over the years we’ve talked...

Workshop Expands Understanding of Color for Artisans

Written by Mary Anne Wise March 21, 2016. Panajachel, Guatemala. Earlier this month Keith Recker, founder of HandEye magazine and author of The 20th Century in Color, conducted a workshop with a ...

Alliance for Artisan Enterprise Competition

Written by Mary Anne Wise In September 2015 finalists in a global competition sponsored by the Aspen Institute's Alliance for Artisan Enterprise were announced. The Guatemalan rug hooking artisans...