Every thread holds time. Every gesture holds knowledge. Every garment carries the place it was born from.
What is MamaQuilla
MamaQuilla is a slow textile brand rooted in cultural connection, ancestral craftsmanship, and intentional living. Working alongside weaving communities around the world, MamaQuilla circulates and co-creates garments and textiles that carry stories, memory, and human connection.
Each piece is an invitation to wear something meaningful, honoring the hands, the traditions, and the territories behind what we wear.
Textiles as vessels of story, memory, and relationship.
Four communities. Four distinct traditions. Each piece made by named hands, in a specific place, using techniques passed through generations.
Chinchero · Sacred Valley, Peru
Named for the yellow flower used in natural dyeing. Ponchos, beanies, and skirts made from antique Andean textiles.
Explore Q'olle →
San Sebastián Río Hondo · Oaxaca, Mexico
Named for the plant realm in Zapotec. A collection rooted in the living landscape of Oaxaca.
Explore Yaga →
Zinacantán · Chiapas, Mexico
Named for flower in Tzotzil. Woven in a highland community where color is a language.
Explore Nichim →
Quetzaltenango (Xela) · Guatemala
Named for woman in K'iche'. Made in collaboration with Trama Textiles, a women's weaving cooperative.
Explore Ixoq →Behind every piece is a woman with a name, a community, a story, and a craft that was taught to her by someone who learned it before her. MamaQuilla does not source from communities. It builds relationships with them.
MamaQuilla was founded by Cat-Vi Skyler Tran, a Swiss-born weaver with Vietnamese roots, based in Rio de Janeiro. A former primary school teacher, she learned to weave from teachers in the communities she lived with, and came to textiles not through fashion but through a search for connection: to roots, to ancestry, to craft, to the women who carry these traditions in their hands.
In March 2025, she spent a month living with a Quechua family in Chinchero, in Peru's Sacred Valley, sharing meals, learning to weave, and listening. That immersion was the origin of everything that followed.
Read her story →MamaQuilla operates as a deliberate hybrid. Alongside the brand, a developing nonprofit arm called Ixchel works to strengthen the economic autonomy and resilience of the weaving communities we collaborate with. Commercial growth funds social strengthening, and social strengthening builds commercial resilience.
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