. All products are made of 100% cotton. The women and their families harvest the cotton and de-seed the cotton by hand. The cotton is beaten with sticks anywhere from 20 minutes to 1 hour, depending on how smooth and thin they wish to make the thread. Then the women hand spin the cotton into thread.

. The dye is made using different plants and insects, including coconut husks and coffee beans, boiled for 30 minutes, and strained. Depending on the desired color, the thread is soaked anywhere from 30 minutes to a few hours. The dye is then set using banana leaves and the thread is hung to dry in the sun.

. The thread is then stretched onto a warp board to measure the thread and to create the color pattern for the desired textile. For one scarf, the thread is wrapped around the warp board approximately 200 times and takes about 2 hours.

. The thread is transferred onto rods, where one end is tied to to a tree or a post and the other end strapped around the waist of the weaver. There are a few rods placed in between to help hold the thread in place and a shuttle is used to weave the thread through the vertical layers. This weaving process takes between 6 to 8 hours to complete one scarf.

. All of the products sold at this store are hand-made, have followed the above process by the women of Asociación Tz’utujil, and are fairly traded to support the women and their families.

. There are about 15 women who are members of women’s cooperative Asociación Tz’utujil.