Green Vineyard Mexico Handmade Mayan Rope Style Single Nylon Hammock Carmen Ruiz Vilchez works in warm baby

Vilchez works in warm baby alpaca wool (season's first shear) to create a beautiful shawl on a traditional handloom

Handcrafted by artisans in Taxco

roasting marshmallows

Anusara crafts the earrings by hand by tying faceted amethysts

Covering a silk shawl with beauty

Green Vineyard Mexico Handmade Mayan Rope Style Single Nylon Hammock Carmen Ruiz Vilchez works in warm babyEvoking ripe sea grapes, the Maya Artists of the Yucatn select purple and green for this colorful hammock. They weave it by hand in the same way they have for centuries. Long before the Spanish arrived upon the coasts of the Yucatan Peninsula, the Maya preferred to sleep and rest in hammocks. They considered the hammock to be like the loving embrace of a mother, due to the comfortable manner in which the body is held and swung within its cradle. Maya