VALLADOLID.- Artisans from various cities have won an embroidery competition held by the State Government’s Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Grand Museum of the Maya World, in the city of Mérida.
Similarly, a group of artisans from Tixhualactún, mostly made up of relatives, make women’s bags with sosquil and paint them in different colors to sell in craft shops located in the Riviera Maya and Playa del Carmen, both in the state of Quintana. Roo.
This institute opened an invitation to Yucatan artisans last October to present their embroidered products.
In the case of the craftsmen of Xocén and Tixhualactún, they sent hipiles and blouses, which they qualified along with other products presented by other craftsmen.
The winners were the artisans Victoria Chi Hau, Nazaria Pech Abán and Maura May y Nahuat, all three from the Xocén police station.
Ignacia Hau and Hau, Maria Juana Canché and Hau, Josefa Hau and Canché and Maria Clara Caamal Hau, from the Tixhualactun police station were also identified.
It turned out that the family group opened a small workshop at the Tixhualactún police station, where they make women’s bags with henequen sosquil.
Later they sell them in the artisan shops of the Riviera Maya and in Playa del Carmen.
Through the Department of Entrepreneurs, the City Council works for artisans to obtain a loan ranging from $ 40,000 to $ 250,000, depending on their needs or whether they can repay the loan in a certain time.
In the case of the Tixhualactún group, they received a credit, but the commercialization of the products was guaranteed.
In the past years credits were given to artisans, but nothing was done to guarantee their commercialization, so much so that in most cases the projects failed.— JAOO
