Please note: This product is hand-made. Colors and styles may vary.

material:
100% Cotton, natural dyes

recommendations:
1 years +

designed and crafted:
Guatemala

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we love this company because:
Savanna Groft, a third grader at the time, was assigned a project at school. Her teacher asked her to crochet a round placemat as part of her handwork studies. Savanna’s initial efforts yielded a round disk, but because she had not added enough stitches, the disc curled under forming a small lip. On a whim, she picked up the disc and threw it. It sailed across the living room and the Phd Pocket Disc was born.

Invented by a family-owned business in North Carolina, the Phd Pocket Disc is designed with traditional Mayan patterns. The Mayans of Guatemala have been weaving and crocheting bright patterns for centuries and bring a deep cultural talent for handwork to the discs. Each village specializes in a few patterns. The patterns of a village are passed down with the generations. Through a veteran importer, Chris and Patrick found a cooperative of Guatemalan women to produce Phds. In return for the amazing artistry that these women add to the Phd Pocket Discs, the women are paid a fair wage and work under good conditions. The money they make crocheting Phd Pocket Discs and other hand-made products enables their children to go to school and helps keeps them out of poverty in a country in which 56% of people now live below the poverty level.