Over time, I became skilled in weaving,” she says. “I continue to weave because my heart tells me to weave. But I’m old and I tire easily. It’s a difficult process to weave these mats.

READ: Weaving with passion ... While they wait for the mats to be finished, their family also earns money from farming, fishing, and making local delicacies. Abeth’s husband is her partner ...

Betty Ann died in 2019. Victoria Ciliberti's great aunt, Elizabeth "Betty Ann" Mongelluzzo, known to everyone in the Italian Market as "Aunt Betty Ann," created the palm-weaving design that the family ...

Thinking of what businesses he could do, Migeni settled on weaving mats using water reeds popularly known as togo (papyrus) among the Luo community. “I was running out of finances and since ...