ANCIENT + MODERN

Cosmo Boy works with artisans in Chiapas Mexico that are extremely skilled in Maya weaving techniques to give you fashionable handmade products with cultural heritage.

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Our project aims to address socioeconomic problems facing artisan communities. For the majority of artisans, work is only seasonal and dependent on tourism. Due to these meager seasonal earnings, the next generation of artisans is abandoning their cultural arts in search of new sources of income.  This takes them on dangerous journeys far away from their homes in return for hard labor on farms and factories below fair-trade wages.  This results in the loss of culturally significant techniques, great personal risk for each artisan, and no way to improve their quality of life or economic situation.

To tackle these issues, every sale at Cosmo Boy provides artisan women with sustainable local employment.

We pay the artisans their asking price or better upfront so they can earn a livable and fair wage. We must respect each artisan and her talents if we wish to preserve their arts for future generations. We set fair prices for the customer so there is equality at each end of the supply chain