DittoHouse Collaborates With Guatemalan Women on Colorful Woven Textiles
DittoHouse launches a collection of colorful woven pieces made in collaboration with artisan women weavers in Guatemala.
One of our favorites for the last 5+ years is Cleveland-based DittoHouse, a textile brand founded by textile designer Molly Fitzpatrick in 2015. When we launched our own online shop, DittoHouse was one of the first we invited on board because it’s impossible not to fall in love with the brand’s visually enticing aesthetic of bright colors and graphic patterns inspired by various influences, like the Op Art movement, Cape Dorset Inuit printmakers and the women weavers of the Bauhaus. Now, DittoHouse has launched a collection that’s the result of a collaboration with Trama Textiles of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, that came together over the course of a year and a half of communicating online. The relationship between the two companies may have been all digital, but the Woven Collaboration collection is made using one of the earliest methods of weaving: a backstrap loom. Each of the nine pieces are designed by DittoHouse and woven by women that are a part of the 100% worker-owned and worker-run cooperative that is Trama Textiles.
I?m thrilled to partner with Trama Textiles for many reasons: they are the best weavers in the world and dedicated preservationists of their craft and culture, the organization is founded and run by Indigenous women and 100% worker owned ? they are a model of ?what could be? in American business ? an organ...
One of our favorites for the last 5+ years is Cleveland-based DittoHouse, a textile brand founded by textile designer Molly Fitzpatrick in 2015. When we launched our own online shop, DittoHouse was one of the first we invited on board because it’s impossible not to fall in love with the brand’s visually enticing aesthetic of bright colors and graphic patterns inspired by various influences, like the Op Art movement, Cape Dorset Inuit printmakers and the women weavers of the Bauhaus. Now, DittoHouse has launched a collection that’s the result of a collaboration with Trama Textiles of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, that came together over the course of a year and a half of communicating online. The relationship between the two companies may have been all digital, but the Woven Collaboration collection is made using one of the earliest methods of weaving: a backstrap loom. Each of the nine pieces are designed by DittoHouse and woven by women that are a part of the 100% worker-owned and worker-run cooperative that is Trama Textiles.
I?m thrilled to partner with Trama Textiles for many reasons: they are the best weavers in the world and dedicated preservationists of their craft and culture, the organization is founded and run by Indigenous women and 100% worker owned ? they are a model of ?what could be? in American business ? an organ...
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