Lord’s Prayer Wall Hanging

When ordering please choose which color of back ground you would like.        Price: $150.00

C&MA Symbol

You may order items in bulk assortment to be sold at functions such as Women’s retreats or seminars. Just send an email on our "contact" link for more information.

Knitted Stockings

#147 "Bouquet table cloth"

Suggested price: $80.00

#110 "Girl with Geese"  24 x 50 in. -

Suggested price: $80.00        61x127 cm.

#245 45 ½  in. sq. or 115 sq. cm. - $140.00

History of CAMA Crafts project in Kosovo

The rebuilding of homes and businesses is still a common sight in the ex-Yugoslavian province of Kosovo (Kosova) after the war which ended in June of 1999. Over 10,000 people lost their lives and many Kosovars where displaced from their homes. CAMA Services went in to Kosova in August of 1999, in order to develop a micro-enterprise project which would allow the Kosovar women to earn a moderate income allowing them to help provide for their families. All of the items in this catalogue were made by Kosovar women, either widows, or low income women trying to make ends meet for their families. There is a supplemental page which includes crafts made by Bosnian women, also victims of the Balkan war.

 

Rebuilding in Kosovo

#342 – Suggested price: $120.00

#338 - Suggested price: $80.00

The CAMA Services wanted to take a skill that the Kosovar women knew already and market it in the states. Crochet work is a common skill among the Kosovar community. Among the Albanian population, the women begin crocheting when they are teen-agers to prepare for their weddings. On the first out of four days of their wedding, they will display all of their crochet work in a room that is covered with clean and cellophane wrapped doilies, table clothes and pillow covers. This proves their worth as a bride and the crafts are then given to their mother-in-law as part of a dowry.

Center for the protection of women and children in Kaçanik, Kosovo

Crocheting a placemat

We started with 30 widows. There were many of them after the war. We now have 280 women registered in the program, not all are widows but because the unemployment rate is at 70%, even women, in this patriarcal society, are working to try to help their husbands provide for their families.

#102 Square - Suggested price: $100.00

#409 Square - Suggested price: $100.00

All of the prices are “suggested” prices only. The prices include the price we pay for the yarn, the price we pay the women, (which is based on the cultural norms for that type of work) and the price we pay for postage. The pieces are UPSed out from Skopje, Macedonia to assure its safe arrival to the states. Any time postage is saved due to hand carried items, that money is used to pay the national craft coordinator’s salary (which is not figured into the price of the item.) Therefore, 100% goes to the project.