Blue Talavera Mask | Otilia's Fabric Series

This is a Mercado Stand Community Item with 75% of each sale being directly donated to De Sol a Sol Colectiva, a "mutual aid collective that through community support provides cash grants to undocumented farmworkers of indigenous and non-indigenous backgrounds" in Watsonville, California. Find more information, community updates, and notable events at their Instagram here This handmade mask is from our Otilia's Fabric series, after my maternal grandmother's tendency to show her love, humor, and patience through handmade clothes and gifts. Each fabric in this series has a story of what she made for the family with it as well as the scraps she always gave with the gift for "just in case."   This fabric was used by my grandmother to pad her growing collection of handmade aprons to wear and often give away whenever someone casually complimented the colors. She especially liked blue floral designs like these in apron fabrics because they matched the talavera tiles and ceramics in her busy