Happy Hammock has been very busy in Guatemala … starting to develop the kids clothes range …

The basic idea is to try and use tradionally woven materials with designs inspired by existing Guatemalan fabrics and then to turn these into cute little outfits and accessories suitable for your little ones.

Guatemalan fabrics are pretty amazing anyway .. so it wasn´t hard to find inspiration. Here are some pictures of women carrying children on their backs in the traditional way …

                             

The fabrics they use are amazing … but also the method seems totally practical, leaving their hands free, and often a sleeping baby content to go and do whatever their busy mother needs to.   

We have decided to try a range of these types of accessories, including the baby sling, which conveniently comes with an instruction manual showing you the ways that the fabric can be tied and how you can carry your infant. The colours that will be available are a red stripe and a blue/turquoise stripe….. the product range also includes matching booties (!) and a matching baby changing mat which conventiently folds up to a handy size.

More pictures to follow .. so watch out Happy Hammock friends with babies .. you will be our models for these products in England … the baby slings are amazing - I´m really excited about them.

We also happily discovered a man called Sebastian and his wife, Juana who are sourcing materials locally in fab colours and making up very cute little dresses and ´capuchas´or hoodies to you and me.

    Juana at their stall

   Dresses …     Sample dress in green.

    

Capucha´s as modelled by Sebastian´s son, Gerzon (2 1/2 yrs olds) .. although not too keenly!

       also modelled by Lourdes Garcia (age 4) 

Coming to Happy Hammock we have:

Dresses (design above) in Green, Red and Blue/Purple. The sizes are age 6m´s, 1-2yrs and 2-3yrs.

and;

Capuchas in the traditioanl dark blue ´Jaspe´(as above), also in Turquoise and Red (strippy design). Ages 1-2, 2-3 and 3-4.  

´Jaspe´is the most traditional design on material .. it is the design that most women use for their skirts.

Other dresses coming soon to Happy-Hammock are these below - they are beautifully made with great attention to detail including a little bow tie at the back above the clasp.

  Lourdes Garcia (4yrs in Green) and Melanie Reyes (2yrs in Pink)

   Melanie .. giving me her best pose! 

   Bow at the back and detail of the material

       Melanie in the blue dress .. front and back

3 colours available, Pink, Blue and Green - and in 2 sizes, ages 1-2 and 2-3. although the dresses are long so can easily extend up and age bracket as shown by Lourdes in the Green dress in the first picture.

As always we have also sourced some goods for the market stall .. and have managed to aquire more stock of the old favorite from last years markets … Hippy Dungarees .. and this year they come in dress form as well!!

      

We can not sell these on line because each pair is unique .. so only for the market stalls and events over the summer.

Anyway .. I hope you like so far … let me know your thoughts via the contacts page!

Happy Hobo out

 

 

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