Where global artisans become contemporary artists.
Each piece on Proud Mary is inspired by the craft expertise, cultural heritage and unique creative vision of our partner artisans. And each piece provides our partner artisans with a new source of passive income.
Here, we share more on their stories
Anita van Wyk
Paintings from Namibia
A San artist and single mother whose work has been exhibited in Namibia and Australia and adapted for textile production worldwide. Her paintings translate cultural memory and lived experience into form with an intuitive, quiet authority.
Maria Fritz
Paintings from Namibia
A self-taught San painter from the Kalahari whose oil paintings captured the flora and traditional narratives of her community. Maria passed away at 36 — her work and her story endure.
Lisa Boepens
Paintings from Namibia
A San artist from Namibia whose deep knowledge of traditional plants flows directly into her paintings — the same flora she forages from the land around her, rendered on canvas with a confident and distinctive hand.
Las Dalias
Embroidery from Mexico
A collective of women embroiderers from Huixtán, Chiapas, founded by Isabel, Elena, Micaela, Sebastiana, and Luci. Their floral embroidery is so precisely executed it has earned collaborations with designers across Mexico and internationally.
William Marapamele
Basotho Blankets from Lesotho
A shepherd and artist from the highlands of Lesotho who started drawing on maize meal bags as a child. Today his large-scale embroidered Basotho blankets stitch together traditional motifs with his own unmistakable whimsical, creative vision.
Porgai Artisans
Lambadi Embroidery from Tamil Nadu, India
The artists of Porgai revive the nearly lost tradition of Lambadi embroidery. With a vast stitch vocabulary of over 40 different stitches, their embroidery is done without prior sketching and follows the artist’s instinct around color and composition.
Suytik
Backstrap Weaving from Chiapas, Mexico
Multiple generations of the López Díaz family, weaving on backstrap looms in San Andrés Larráinzar as they have since childhood. For the women of Suytik, the loom is not a tool — it's how Tsotsil identity, knowledge, and daily life are passed down.
Colibri
Backstrap Weaving from Chiapas, Mexico
Three Tseltal sisters from San Juan Cancuc, Chiapas — Ana, Petrona, and Natalia — who learned backstrap weaving from their elders and are now making it entirely their own, bringing new colors, formats, and ideas to a tradition they grew up with.
Santa Catarina
Backstrap Weaving from Chiapas, Mexico
Silvia, Julieta, Rebeca, and María Ananí are backstrap weavers from Pantelhó, Chiapas. Silvia learned the craft from her mother Polonia and passed it to her daughters, turning weaving into an unbroken thread of expression across generations.
United Artisans of Kutch
Textiles from Gujarat, India
United Artisans of Kutch is a platform based in Kutch, Gujarat, dedicated to recognizing lesser-known artisans and bringing their work to a global audience through curated craft excursions and a growing community of collectors and collaborators.
