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Elsa Ortiz Online Guatemalan Textiles, Art, & Clothing. Purchases support artisans and provide education to GT youth.

How do you like these overalls? They are upcycled from Mayan cortes (skirts)!
10/13/2026

How do you like these overalls? They are upcycled from Mayan cortes (skirts)!

We sold every skirt we brought, and much more! It's the best sale of the year! Albuquerque Folk Fest. See you next year!
09/27/2026

We sold every skirt we brought, and much more! It's the best sale of the year! Albuquerque Folk Fest. See you next year!

09/26/2026

Timo and Lisa, our grandkids, and their San Francisco grandparents will be playing for fun at our booth tomorrow at the Albuquerque Folk Fest!

Our apparel is upcycled from Mayan cortes (skirts). We buy used cortes in weekend markets and our artisans turn them int...
09/25/2026

Our apparel is upcycled from Mayan cortes (skirts). We buy used cortes in weekend markets and our artisans turn them into styles popular here. If you go to the Albuquerque Folk Music Festival this Saturday come by our tables and see these beautiful garments, each with a story behind it. https://abqfolkfest.org/

We will be vending at the Folk Festival, Saturday, September 26, 10am - 9pm. It's one of the most fun festivals we do. C...
09/09/2026

We will be vending at the Folk Festival, Saturday, September 26, 10am - 9pm. It's one of the most fun festivals we do. Check it out! https://abqfolkfest.org/index.shtml

08/28/2026

Most of our clothing is upcycled from previously worn Mayan cortes (skirts).

Before we left Guatemala we brought a canasta basica to a very poor family that makes some of our beaded products. A ca...
08/14/2026

Before we left Guatemala we brought a canasta basica to a very poor family that makes some of our beaded products. A canasta basica is a one month's supply of basic food. This family lives in the mountains. The house has no running water, no electricity, no bathroom, and just dirt floors. The kitchen was very smokey from the wood stove they use.
Irma, their 16-year-old daughter showed us how she beads our coin purses. Look at the little loom she made using two plastic combs and some thin wires. That's what she does much of every day. Irma has epilepsy. Needless to say, her medical care is not ideal. They can't afford to drive her to the city every month for tests and adjustment of medicine dosage. She lives as my grandparents would have lived with the disease.
The beads she has are imported from Czechoslovakia. Our friend, Mildred, orders beads and gives them to many artisans in the mountainous areas. They bead and sell the products back to her. She then sells them in her store in Panajachel.

Hope you can come! We'll be back from Guate two days before.
07/28/2026

Hope you can come! We'll be back from Guate two days before.

Lucia embroiders our dancing dresses. Her husband, Tomas, sews them. Meet them both and see the dresses in this video.
07/28/2026

Lucia embroiders our dancing dresses. Her husband, Tomas, sews them. Meet them both and see the dresses in this video.

A rare choice of children's apparel. All hand embroidered in the highlands of Guatemala. We will have them at the w**e...
07/01/2026

A rare choice of children's apparel. All hand embroidered in the highlands of Guatemala. We will have them at the w**e festival.

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