Mitla cushion, handwoven cotton from Mexico, 50x50cm

Product: handwoven cotton cushion cover, 50x50cm

Made entirely of cotton, each cushion is woven on one of the family's wooden looms.

Maker: Patrimonio Inmaterial seeks to promote and distribute craft products made with ancestral skills from Mexican communities. To fight the extinction of exceptional traditions, P.I. supports and champions the richness of handmade crafts, a reflection of Mexico's intangible heritage.

Ariane and Jonathan, founders of P.I., work with organized rural communities, most of them Indigenous communities with unique skills. This collaboration opens new economic opportunities for the artisans while ensuring them a fair price for every product bought.

Each craft, entirely handmade, is the fruit of skills and knowledge passed on orally and visually within the communities, and reveals a rigorous, high-quality craft technique, a symbol of cultural identity. P.I.'s approach is meant to be ethical and mindful of each artisan's working conditions.

Buying P.I. products helps safeguard a heritage threatened by globalization and also fights the mass migration affecting Mexico, so artisans can live from their trade while continuing to pass it on from generation to generation.