The wine and cheese place look like a real nice place to do exactly what you all did but I have a question about all the fabrics you showed us. Are those all hand spun or woven right there in San Juan or other nearby cities and villages?
The wine and cheese place look like a real nice place to do exactly what you all did but I have a question about all the fabrics you showed us. Are those all hand spun or woven right there in San Juan or other nearby cities and villages?
Yes.... they are all made in San Juan. There are 3 woman's cooperatives in San Juan, each with 20 women or more in the collective. There was a very short clip in that vid where you can see a woman weaving in front of the store, it would have been longer but i had a flash of guilt about filming her so it was brief.
That brief shot of her is what prompted the question. I didn't know if she was out there weaving because that is just part of how they do it or if she was out there more as a "prop" so that tourists would assume that all the fabric was hand woven there and then the stuff actually being machine made in China and just shipped in and sold.