Artisan - Martha Lopez Gomez
Santiago el Pinar, Mexico
I am 32 years old, I started working as a craftswoman when I was twenty years old with a backstrap loom and began making traditional blouses and blouses for girls from one to five years old. I used to only work on this on my free time but today I work it daily because it takes time to make each garment depending on their size. The first thing I do is to put the yarns in the frame and once I have the design, I place the yarns in balls Then I start knitting, working in the afternoons because I have three children that I take care of in the mornings. The garments I make I sell to some of my close acquaintances because at the moment, I do not know another way to sell my products and also because customers do not pay the fair price for my work and this is my livelihood and my children's.