Unique Mayan Hammock from Mexico (Single) - Caribbean Beach bestseller24 Balinese artisan Nengah Sudarsana hand

Balinese artisan Nengah Sudarsana hand carves the loving cat from local suar wood with a lovely natural grain before painting the surface dark brown

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Guatemalan artisan Gladys Pichola diligently incorporates nylon thread in poppy red to achieve the creative designs

in this pendant necklace from India's Alok Jain

a man wearing a sombrero is depicted in this figurine by Mexican artisan Juana Ponce

Unique Mayan Hammock from Mexico (Single) - Caribbean Beach bestseller24 Balinese artisan Nengah Sudarsana handThis beige hand woven hammock recalls the soft sands of the Caribbean. Mexico's Maya Artists of the Yucatn preserve the weaving techniques inherited from their Maya ancestors to ensure the hammock tradition. 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