40 years of Craft – The Hands — 20% Off Our Shawl & Bag Collections
A QUIET MANIFESTO
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CRAFT
CRAFT BEGINS WITH PEOPLE
For forty years, Maiwa has been built through relationships with artisans and communities.
Some have lasted almost as long as Maiwa itself. We have worked together, learned together, watched families grow, and seen traditions change and find new possibilities.
WEEK 02
20% Off Leatherwork & Shawls
This week we celebrate the hands behind the work.
the leatherworkers of Jawaja, the weavers of our shawls, hand embroiderers, and the many makers whose work has travelled home with so many of you over the years.
The Quiet Manifesto speaks to the importance of understanding not only how something is made, but who made it and the context from which it comes.
Craft is more than technique. Knowledge lives in people. In hands that have repeated a movement thousands of times. In an understanding of material that becomes almost instinctive. In skills taught by one generation and taken somewhere new by the next.
Some of our relationships are now decades old.
We have watched children grow up and become makers themselves. We have worked through years of extraordinary possibility and years when traditions seemed terribly vulnerable. We have learned that the preservation of craft cannot be separated from the lives of the people who practise it.
This is what preservation of craft means to us.
Not holding a tradition still, but giving it room to continue.
This seems obvious, and yet it is remarkably easy to lose sight of.
Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than Jawaja. Our relationship with the leatherworkers of Jawaja reaches back through much of Maiwa’s history. Over decades we have worked together, designing, experimenting and solving problems. Their work embodies so much of what we believe: exceptional skill, strong materials, usefulness, beauty, dignity in making, and the possibility of a craft tradition continuing because people continue to value it.
Craft begins with people. And it survives through people.
A QUIET MANIFESTO
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CRAFT
Throughout November, everyone who shops with Maiwa — in our stores or online — will receive a complimentary copy of A Quiet Manifesto for the Preservation of Craft.
It is our gift in gratitude for forty years of being able to do this work.
Free shipping to Canada & the United States on orders over $200 CAD.
Discount will be applied automatically at checkout.
In Store and Online.
Sale runs until November 30, 2026.
All discounted items are final sale.
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