cotton process

For the weavers in coastal Ecuador, sometimes it means waiting for the right time of year to pick their cotton on the few wild plants left in the area or scour the market for increasingly scarce bags of this fiber. Kathleen Klumpp, the North American anthropologist whom I accompanied t this area is helping this wever Trini and her family to keep the traditions alive by funding the planting of 150 cotton plants on their land. She also frequently commissions saddle bags so that Trini has the chance to weave some of the lesser use motifs so that the skills in producing these designs are not forgotten forever.