We collaborate with craftsmen in various communities and ethnic groups, integrating their traditional techniques with new designs.
Wounaan
The Wounaan (also Waunana) live along the rainforest rivers of Colombia’s Chocó and Panama’s Darién, where they share the Emberá-Wounaan comarca. Speakers of the Woun Meu language, they practise fishing, small-scale horticulture, and careful forest stewardship. Wounaan artisans are celebrated for coiled baskets woven from werregue and chunga palm fibres, dyed with plant pigments into intricate geometric motifs, as well as cocobolo-wood and tagua-nut carvings that echo forest fauna. Basketry—primarily the work of women—provides vital income and keeps ancestral ecological knowledge alive.
The Inga live in southern Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley and the surrounding Andean Amazon foothills, a high basin about 2 000 metres above sea level. Cloud forest slopes, páramo grasslands, and mist fed rivers form one of Earth’s richest biodiversity corridors, home to orchids, medicinal plants, and hundreds of bird species.
2. Prep the seeds
Peel the fruit, separate the glossy seeds, then wash and sun-dry them for several days.
