Textile Designer Marisol Centeno Sees Design as an Agent of Change
May 11, 2021
By Peter Webster
By her own admission, textile designer Marisol Centeno is a Romantic, committed to the idea of design as an agent of change a source of aesthetic, social, and cultural innovation. Equipped with a degree from Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana, Centeno began working for a commercial textile manufacturer but soon discovered that in her homeland there was not much of a relationship between design and the industry. “I felt the need to implement responsible creative and production processes for the types of textiles I wanted to bring to life,” she reports. So in 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a rug and textile company where the products are designed and made in close collaboration with an artisanal workshop in Teotitlán del Valle in Oaxaca, fulfilling her vision that “multiculturalism, craftsmanship, and industry can have a dialogue.” After almost a decade producing colorful
“We are thrilled to welcome these new partners to the GoodWeave family. Each of these companies shares our values and helps expand GoodWeave’s reach to new markets around the world by importing GoodWeave certified products to countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Japan,” says GoodWeave’s vice president of international business development, Scott Welker.
With the addition of these companies, GoodWeave’s roster of licensed importers and retailers tops 175. Rugs or home textiles carrying the GoodWeave certification label sold by these companies means that no child, forced or bonded labor was used in the making of the product, and that purchases support programs that educate children and ensure decent work for adults. Read about each company and the certified products they are selling:
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Nina Smith, the founding CEO of GoodWeave International, was recently named a recipient of the 2020 Tufts University Alumni Award for Active Citizenship and Public Service, which celebrates contributions to improving the lives of others. GoodWeave is the leading global NGO working to stop child labor in global supply chains. GoodWeave brings visibility and rights to workers; restores childhoods; and provides assurance to companies and consumers that carpets and home textiles with the GoodWeave
® certification label are produced free from child labor.
Under Smith s leadership over the past two decades, GoodWeave has pioneered and innovated a market-based system that has led to the rescue of nearly 8,000 children from exploitation. The organization has also provided rehabilitation, education and other critical support to rescued children, as well as tens of thousands of ot