Mexican Products - Bags, Textile and Baskets

Handmade Baskets from Oaxaca in Mexico´s southern region, with their tight mesh, are very popular. Each basket tells a story, and the fine baskets from Mexico, in their various shapes and sizes and materials, are appealing to a broader audience more now than ever before.

Straw Bags
Each bag is handmade in Southern Mexico from palm and cactus and take up to three weeks per bag. Making each bag unique and perfect for that special gift! Bags ready for delivery!

Textiles
Cotton originated in the New World, and weaving cotton cloth has been a Zapotec industry in Oaxaca for 2,500 years. The tribute lists of the Aztecs give an indication of the quantity of fine woven goods produced in the Oaxacan valleys. In cosmology, the Goddess of Earth and Nature was a great weaver who wished to remain celibate to devote herself totally to her craft, a plan foiled by a god who changed himself into a hummingbird and impregnated the goddess by a peck of his beak on her breast; upon which she gave birth to the sun and the moon.

Mexican Zapotec Rugs
The beautiful hand-woven Zapotec rugs and wall hangings represent five hundred years of weaving tradition in the Zapotec weaving village of Teotitlan del Valle, near Oaxaca City, in Southern Mexico. The wool for these rugs is hand-washed and hand-spun into yarn, which is then woven using traditional wooden looms into the many styles of rugs. This tradition of one of the native peoples of Mexico, the Zapotecs, continues as an active native craft in the Valley of Oaxaca.