Mexico Life Luisa Arroya Vicenta, a Tenango embroiderer, is working with a Mexico City NGO on an internet sales initiative for Otomí and Nahua textile artisans.
Nonprofits help Mexico’s artisans learn to sell in a socially distanced world NGOs see opportunity to empower traditional artisans often reliant on middlemen
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If anything good comes from this pandemic, it may be that the Mexican artisan community “discovers” the internet.
Even before Covid-19, traditional artisans’ greatest challenge has been to get fair prices for their creations. Essentially, the problem is that they almost always live in poor, rural areas, far from urban and international markets where the people with the money and desire to support them can be found.