Our Story
The Mountain Is Not a Backdrop. It Is the Author.
Heritage
More Than A Hammock
Every hammock is handwoven by artisans from the Arhuaco, Kogui, Wiwa and Wayuu communities using techniques passed from one generation to the next.
No two pieces are ever alike.
Each purchase helps preserve ancestral knowledge while supporting Indigenous families.
RAÍZ began with a single hammock bought in a market in Santa Marta, and the discovery that the woman who made it had received less than a tenth of its price.
We spent the following two years travelling into the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and across La Guajira, meeting families who have woven for as long as anyone can remember — and who had never sold a piece at a price they set themselves.
Today we buy directly from eighty-four weavers across four communities. There is no intermediary, no wholesale negotiation of a woman's time, and no attempt to accelerate a process that has never been in a hurry.
Mission
Preserve the Technique by Valuing It
Ancestral knowledge survives when it can support a family. Our work is to make weaving economically worth continuing, so that a fifteen-year-old in Nabusímake sees a future in the loom rather than in leaving.
Vision
An Heirloom, Not a Souvenir
A RAÍZ hammock should outlive the person who bought it and be handed on with its certificate intact — the artisan's name still legible, the date still recorded, the story still travelling with the object.
84
Weavers working with us
4
Indigenous communities
100%
Price set by the artisan
3
Weaving schools funded
