Unique Mayan Hammock from Mexico (Single) - Caribbean Beach bestseller24 Guatemalan artisan Gladys Pichola diligently

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

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

This cute round Piggy Bank is Handmade by artisans outside of Lima

Exalting the treasures of colonial-era handicrafts in Peru

Each: 5 inches H x 4

Unique Mayan Hammock from Mexico (Single) - Caribbean Beach bestseller24 Guatemalan artisan Gladys Pichola diligentlyThis 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