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EPISODE 07 · Oaxaca, Mexico · OPPORTUNITY SPOTTING

Made by Hand, Sold to the World

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Made by Hand, Sold to the World
18 min

THE FILM

The artisans whose work now ships globally from a phone — and the thin line between reach and erasure.

A weaver in a mountain village now has buyers in Berlin. We follow the rug from the loom to the checkout to ask the question every artisan economy faces: does global reach lift the maker, or slowly turn the craft into content?

IN THIS FILM

  • 01

    THE PLACE

    Mountain villages where the craft is the economy and the identity both.

  • 02

    THE PEOPLE

    The weaver, the cooperative, the middleman the phone was supposed to remove.

  • 03

    THE TECHNOLOGY

    Direct-to-world selling: the lift, and the slow pull toward making for the feed.