Artesanías Ngäbe — Tienda

A cooperative of thirty-one Ngäbe weavers working around Tolé, selling directly instead of through the roadside middlemen who have historically taken most of the margin. Every piece carries a tag with the name of the woman who made it, the community she made it in, and the price split — which is printed on the tag because the cooperative would rather answer that question before it is asked. The chácara bags are worked from pita and cabuya fibre and take between two weeks and two months depending on size and pattern. Anything not in stock is made to order and takes as long as it takes; the cooperative will give you a real date rather than an optimistic one. Orders ship from Tolé within Panama and internationally on request.