A handbag by Dsenyo, who offers contemporary handbags
and accessories celebrating African Textile design and sustainable fibers.
This Friday and Saturday, the de Young Museum Store will host their inaugural Fair Trade Bazaar, showcasing fair trade products from around the world.
The event will feature about a dozen vendors selling jewelry, textiles, native handcrafts and accessories that reflect on the museum’s multicultural collections.
Museum store director Stuart Hata explains, “The de Young Museum store is proud to organize the inaugural Fair Trade Bazaar as an educational complement to the Museum’s renown collections of native arts from around the world. Working with local Fair Trade merchants and the kind assistance of the Fair Trade Federation has allowed us to present a diverse range of fair trade product for the Museum’s audience to shop and support.”
Participating vendors include:
Craftspring – Central Asian arts & crafts
Dsenyo – African bags/accessories
Gianna Fair Trade – Southeast Asian tabletop/textiles
Globally Minded– Mayan jewelry
Good Paper – Multi-ethnic stationery
Jolom Mayaetik – Mayan textiles
Mayan Hands – Mayan crafts
Ock Pop Tok – Laotian textiles
Oryjin – Laotian jewelry/scarves
Tribal Home – African baskets
Woven Promises – African textiles
Yellow Label Kids – Nepalese kids crafts
Zanmi Lakay – Haitian arts & crafts
Many of the vendors at the event are members of the Fair Trade Federation.
The Fair Trade Bazaar will take place in the Piazzoni Murals Room in the de Young Museum on Friday 9:30am until 8:30pm, and on Saturday from 9:30am until 4:30pm. Admission to the event is free and museum members will receive a 10% discount on all purchases.
Sarah B.
Zanmi Lakay Haitian Arts Crafts
I am in love with the pictured bracelet.