Stories from Around the Globe

Meeting Boucherouite Weavers in Morocco

Written by Mary Anne Wise While we were in Morocco we had the privilege of spending the day with a collective of bourcherouite weavers. These women live in douars south of Marrakech. A douar is a...

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...

New Baby Quilts, In Time for the Holidays

Written by Mary Anne Wise We've worked with Jabbar Khatri and his team for years.  We've sold his scarves and wraps in our shop almost every season, but now we've  teamed up with this award winnin...

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...

Following the Threads As We Launch a New Project

Written by Mary Anne Wise Of all the Guatemalan textile techniques, I fell in love with embroidery first. I was captivated by the exquisite hand embroidered men’s pantalone panels, alive with del...

Embroidery Artisans from Madagascar Featured in Exhibition Debut at Cultural Cloth

Written by Mary Anne Wise From the island nation of Madagascar, located off the southeastern coast of Africa, the finely detailed hand-embroidered works by Stitch St Luce have traveled 9,488 miles...

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 ...

Setting Sail For India

Written by Mary Anne Wise Our shop in Maiden Rock closed for the season on Dec 23. No worries: we'll be processing on-line orders throughout the winter. Winter is when we venture forth, make new c...

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...