TARBAY is proud to create fashion together with the “Indigenous Entrepreneur Woman†project
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- 21 Oct 2022
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Within the most recent TARBAY collection are the Warao bags, a handcrafted piece made with moriche palm from the Orinoco delta, by the indigenous ethnic group that bears the same name. These bags are manufactured in partnership with Fundación Tierra Viva, a Venezuelan non-governmental and non-profit organization that promotes sustainable development programs that improve the quality of life of the beneficiaries.
The moriche (orijú) palm is the sacred tree for the Warao. From it they obtain everything necessary for life: food, shelter, fiber and shade. Within the Warao community, weaving is an ancestral knowledge, with which grandmothers and mothers develop skills with their hands and feet to create pieces with the moriche fiber, and in this way, they provide economic support for their families.
The alliance with the Tierra Viva foundation began in 2019, when the Ojidú collection was launched, a name inspired by the launch of Warao bags, which means tree of life and refers to the moriche palm.
Marta Tarbay makes the designs preserving the essence of this traditional art, the artisans of the "OKO NONAMO" network, a group of Warao women weavers that was born from the project "Indigenous Entrepreneurial Woman" of Tierra Viva, receive the sketches and make a first prototype then start production.
