Guatemalan Wine Waiter

Ensure your wine bottle is dressed to impress with a colorful "wine waiter" - the perfect party or picnic companion. Not only is it a cute, one-size-fits all way to get a grip on chilly champagnes or hide the label on that cheap bottle of wine, each protects the countertop and dining room table from drips. Plus this waiter doesn't require a tip.

These cotton wine waiters (sometimes called wine butlers) are handmade by women with Unidas Para Vivir Mejor (United for A Better Life, or UPAVIM), an income-generation project based just outside Guatemala City. The cooperative was established in 1989 to give women jobs and paid its artisan a fair trade wage to sew the infamous scrunchie hair tie that was so popular in the 1980's.

Since then, UPAVIM has grown into a 60+ member business cooperative that supports its entire community with a variety of cloth products and by providing day-care facilities and Montessori preschool classes.

Representative colors shown from left to right: Blues/Purples, Reds, Black and Reds. Fabrics will vary and there are additional colors. Guatemalan Wine Waiters (Wine Butlers)    $7.00 each UPA:WINE-VEST    7" high, 5.5" wide with adjustable straps. (Sorry - out of stock.)

In 2002, UPAVIM was awarded the Best Non-traditional Textile Exporter award by AGEXPRONT, a national trade organization. The cooperative is currently building a four-story building that will include an expanded school, a bakery, a soy milk production facility, a typewriting school and a senior activities center.

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