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About us

 

We create meaningful textiles that are meant to last for years or even a lifetime to make you feel confident, satisfied and cozy, while integrating you in reciprocity with native communities in Mexico. 

 

Heartfully Handmade
  • We produce only handwoven textiles from biodegradable materials
  • We do slow made and small batch, because we create with real humans. No factories involved in the process of weaving and tailoring!
  • We focus on timeless designs and high quality. Items are meant to last for years or even a lifetime. 
  • We foster and maintain traditional art forms, listening to the knowledge of each artisan. 
  • We live and produce in the rural area.



Radical Reciprocity
  • We put reciprocity in the front line
  • You form part of the reciprocity as we invest 10% of the gains back to the communities.
  • We support especially traditional midwives and health projects that foster the wellbeing in rural Mexico.
  • We make special campaigns to support families in vulnerable situations. 
  • We do not bargain the wages.



Consciously Created
  • You don't just buy products. You support the resilience of native communities. 
  • Our artisan partners are autonomous and self organized working from their homes or home villages.
  • We build long lasting all-inclusive relationships personally with them.
  • Transparency is key. You deserve to know who made your clothes and our artisans deserve to be recognized. 



  



Antama was born when we, Manuel & Anna, became parents of our first child. Wanting to share with others the possibility to foster the bond between the baby and caretaker, to help in the everyday by offering hands free experience and by enfolding us in the love of traditional textiles, we created Antama. It has been growing organically, at the phase of our family, now offering wearable textiles for all genders and ages.

 

 

For now we work in collaboration with 7 artisan groups around Oaxaca, we are 44 person working directly to Antama and our collaborations include projects with more than 200 families involved.


 

 

A N T A M A means “Given” in Finnish and comes from the first letters of our family members during the beginning of this project.

For us all that we have, these projects and the opportunity to work is a blessing given (antama) for us from Above. 

 

Actions of Reciprocity



SINCE 2016, WE have INVESTed 10% OF OUR MONTHLY GAINS BACK TO THE COMMUNITIES.


This is one of our main actions of manifesting our vision of wellbeing in rural Mexico. For us the wellbeing in our communities can be achieved through our local traditional midwives and they are on the top of our list of people we support.

This is an action of solidarity towards traditional midwives, wisdom keepers and local communities.

 



WHEN YOU HAVE PURCHASED FROM US YOU HAVE SUPPORTED:


 

  • A local midwife and her birth house in San Mateo Rio Hondo, Oaxaca. 
This includes:
-monetary support for the midwife and for the construction and repair of the buildings on the ranch,
-baby clothes,
-baby blankets,
-necessary medicines,
-fire pit to warm up the birth room,
-service.

This midwife works with a donation base and does not charge for her work so this has been extremely important for us. This is one of our long-lasting support targets.

 


  • Construction of the sanitary rooms and kitchen of a community birth house of a traditional midwife in the community of Amatenango in Chiapas.
  • Construction of traditional temazcal (sweatlodge) and sanitary rooms at the birth house of a traditional midwife in the Mixe-community in the mountains of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca.
  • The Grandmother Midwives Council: Keepers of the Ancestral Wisdom of Mexico.
  • Travel costs for traditional midwives form Oaxaca and Chiapas to attend a breech and twins training in Oaxaca City. Workshop is facilitated by Breech Without Borders (USA). https://breechwithoutborders.regfox.com/oaxaca
  • Local rehabilitation center in San Mateo Rio Hondo, Oaxaca, which is part of the midwifes project with her husband. Monetary support and tequio/service. The center has worked with a donation base since many decades and does not charge for the work so reciprocity is important.
  • Low income families.
  • Newly-married couples with projects that aim to provide work and health in rural Oaxaca (Mountains of San Mateo Río Hondo and Nochixtlán, Oaxaca).
  • Food and construction materials for families who lost their homes due the pass of hurricane Agatha on May 2022
  • Reconstruction of homes affected by the earthquakes in 2017-2018
  • Help for our artisan and their family member in a health situation that asked for chirurgical procedures and by that meaning high costs.
  • Construction of an eco ranch in San Mateo Rio Hondo, Oaxaca.
  • Preservation of native forest in San Mateo Rio Hondo, Oaxaca, more than 6 hectares.
  • Sponsoring Micelio Sierra Sur Festival 2023, first festival of art and fungi world in Sierra Sur, Oaxaca, bringing the arts and science to our community. Plenty of workshops of art and mushrooms to children and adults. https://miceliosierrasur.com/ 
FUNDRAISER:
  • Food and construction materials for families who lost their homes due the pass of hurricane Agatha on May 2022
WHAT WE AIM TO SUPPORT IN THE FUTURE:
At the moment we are building a workshop for small children about physical autonomy and sexual health. 
        • Projects of food sovereignty 
        • Sexual education of children
        • Local productors and farmers
        • Health Community projects
        • Workshops that look for making an impact for liberty, health, against violence and independence especially directed towards local women
        • Midwives, midwives and midwives

     

    Values

    We work with community trade principles suitable for each community. We do not bargain down the wages and our artisan partners are self organized and autonomous.

    Doing good work and providing good quality products. Always looking to make things even better.

    Producing locally in rural communities where families and persons of different ages and genders are included.

    Our creations emerge from the traditional arts and we aim to maintain and foster it. Traditional medicine contributes to the wellbeing of our communities and we support it.

    Creating personally longlasting partnerships and collaborations with our artisan partners, which leads us through even difficult times providing sustain.

    We provide work that is worthy and respectful for the artisans, listening to the knowledge of everybody helping each other to thrive.

    We look for frank and respectful dialogue with our team and our clients, built in honesty and confidence.

    We love to share about the process and who is behind all the items we provide. The origin matters. You deserve to know who is behind your clothing and the artisans deserve to be recognized.

    who we are

    Hola,

    We are Manuel and Anna. Parents to four daughters.
    We live at Sierra Madre Sur, (Souther mountains) of Oaxaca, Mexico.

    We are a Mexican-Finnish couple in search of our true face (rostro verdadero). Apart of Antama our other projects of returning back to the roots is our ranch and social work in the communities. 

    We live surrounded by a forest on a ranch that we have been building all the way from zero. It's one of our personal learning spaces, ecologic building with traditional techniques and local materials from the land, herb gardens, planting, guarding organic seeds and so on. Making everything by hand is quite slow, but also rewarding as entering to a learning process is not only about the final result but everything on the way to it.





    For us it is important that we, and especially our children, can live surrounded by the 4 elements; we drink fresh spring water, breathe clean mountain air, warm the house by nights with fire and walk on the bare earth beneath us.



     



    When we met Manuel was giving a service in a rehabilitation center led by a midwife and her husband on the mountains, where he had lived for 5 years. He also was holding two temazcals in Miahuatlan where he worked especially with groups of Anonymous Alcoholics. 

    Now Manuel is busy with Antama, family and the ranch. He has his hands on the constructions and all the infrastructure of the ranch which he has built from the beginning. He is the active participant in the tequios (traditional community service without payment) in local community. His family roots come from the region of Tenango del Valle and Michoacan.





    Anna is an apprentice of traditional midwifery. She has given birth in three different ambients: at hospital, birth center and at home, one was a breech baby. Enjoying all the wisdom that the abuelas parteras (grandmother midwives) share with her she hopes to be able to share it with the community. Before that she did a couple of Doula trainings and a babywearing consultant course. She enjoys dancing, arts and connecting with nature. 

    Testimonials

    • I love the rebozo you sent. I’m wearing it now, and wear it for prayer and self-care, and I love how large it is, for my large frame. Calendula Rebozo

      — Alison B.

    • Beautiful, authentic rebozos - great size and colors obviously made with love and care. I was looking for the "real deal" as far as rebozos go and this is it!

      — Lisa C.

    • This is my first poncho I ordered from Antama. I immediately fell in love with it. It's very cosy, keeps me warm and the colors are gorgeous. Poncho Xadani

      — Claudia B.

    Frequently asked questions

    Our online shop is open 7 days a week. We are personally at service from Monday to Friday. We try to respond to all inquiries within 24 hours.

    We operate with values of solidarity, community, well-being, friendly to the environment, small production, slow production, safety, care, respect in tradition, transparency, empathy, creativity and community trade.

    Read more about our artisan partners here: OUR TEAM

    Mission and Vision: BEHIND ANTAMA

    We are monitoring the current Covid-19 situation. Before purchasing please check the current situation of your country of the Fedex list:

    https://www.fedex.com/content/dam/fedex/lac-latin-america/downloads/covid-19-docs/fedex-covid-19_service_impacts_EN.pdf

    TIP:   Make an order together with your friend(s) and save in shipping costs!!

    International shipping is done with FedEx Service.

    All in-stock items ship on Tuesdays. If Tuesday is a festive day, the parcel will be shipped on the next workday.

     

    Purchases realized after Monday 4PM (CST) will be shipped on the Tuesday next week. Sometimes we have the opportunity to send also during the week. This is due to our remote location on the mountains far away from the post services.


    We ship almost all over the world and we love it! Some countries are not listed on the country list. If you however want to place an order to these countries, please contact us first. Read more about the Delivery here.


    Brexit countries:  Please note that the changing situation on the importing laws is changing. Customers are the importer of record and as such responsible for paying any applicable custom duties and import taxes. The Brexit may lead to longer transit times and additional storage fees.


    IMPORTANT IN EU: We offer; Delivered at Place (DAP): This indicates that we are only responsible for shipping the product, while the customer has to absorb any import costs. We DO NOT collect importing taxes from our end. This might make the delivery slower once entered to the customs.


    Customs fees and import duties as well as custom protocols vary by country and product, and are the responsibility of the purchaser.  If a parcel is stopped in the customs this will prolong the shipping time some days.

    The Carriers are at the moment registered until 20-40 kgs. If you want to make an order with more weight, please contact us first, thank you!


    National orders: Free shipping on orders starting from 63.5 USD / 1300 MXN. We can ship in Oaxaca with Lineas Unidas Suburbans and client can pick the parcel from the office/ base. We ship once the payment arrives.


    Read more about Shipping here.

    The items do include a 10 days return time.

    If you are not happy with your order please contact us. When you purchase a wrap or cloth; please try it on yourself carefully to see if you like it. Do not take any labels or marks out of it if you are not 100% sure you want to keep it.

    Then if you are happy with your purchase wash the wraps before use as they come in a loom state. Our return policy is eligible for unwashed products. Please see our Terms and Conditions for more information about the returns and exchanges.

    If an item is listed as a seconds (2nds) that means the manufacturer or us found a flaw during their quality assurance inspection and we have discounted it as such.

    This is normally a pull, broken or skipped thread, or other flaw. Usually it asks a little home repair moments.

    All seconds items are discounted to reflect their status. For this reason, these items do not qualify for our no questions asked return policy.  All sales of these items are final. 

    We never share your personal information with anyone ever.

    Are you interested in collaborating? Want to become a distributor? Send us a message to sales@antamashop.com and let's chat! 

    Interested in making a bulk order? Discount for orders with 10 items or more is -12%. Use code MUCHLOVE at the checkout.

    Didn’t find out the answer to your question in the FAQs or Terms and Conditions?

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