Luisa & Consuelo
Rayas Collective
Berlin, Germany
Let's make female weavers financially independent.
Rayas Collective was born in 2022 by sisters Luisa & Consuelo after the two travelled to Consuelo’s home country of El Salvador. Exploring local craft markets, sourcing materials and working hand in hand with artisans, they returned with their hearts and heads full of wonder and inspiration.
Motivated to share the beauty and spirit of El Salvador with the world, they combined their complementary professional backgrounds in design and operations, and have put together a collection of unique and eclectic woven market baskets.
Basket weaving has a long tradition in El Salvador, it’s a skill usually transferred between family members and for many living in remote villages an important means to make a living.
‘Rayas’ means ’stripes’ in Spanish, the name references the woven, often horizontally or vertically striped structure of the baskets and communicates the project's heritage and the collective team that is involved.
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Value in the details
A female-led team of skilled artisans
Rayas Collective basket are handwoven in a rural village in El Salvador by a small female-led team of skilled artisans.
Each basket takes approximately 4 hours to make. Firstly, strips of material are vertically wrapped around a wooden mould, and then horizontally woven through. Lastly the handles are looped through and secured.
As durable as recycled
The baskets are woven from locally sourced virgin and post-consumer recycled high density polyethylene.
The material makes them lightweight, extremely durable, dirt resistant and waterproof - all properties which make them last a lifetime!
working hand in hand with female weavers
Rayas Collective mission is to work hand in hand with their female weavers, exchange skills, prevent the handcraft from disappearing, show them that their creativity and specific local skill has value and thus empower them to run their own businesses and become financially independent.
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