Futuras Artesanal Blackmore de Mujeres Rurales Organizado en Nicaragua
FABMRON is a group of 17 women weavers who live, work, and weave rugs in a small village in the mountains above Matagalpa, Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere. The rugs, woven from recycled fabric, provide the women with a source of income independent from traditional agricultural production. Proceeds are used to fund production and provide for previously unaffordable health care, school fees, and basic tools.
FABMRON was co-founded in 2009 by Peace Corps volunteer, Ivy Blackmore, and her mother, Carol Blackmore, a rug weaver in Chapel Hill, NC
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"We have learned to be
organized, to be supportive, and we have learned to live together
socially, which is for us of great benefit." Women Weavers of El Ocotal  “I am going to keep making more with the design of improving my life. I feel happy because we are working to obtain our own business and our own money to buy what we need…” Argentina Obergon © FABMRON |
"Our goals are to learn more with more practice on the loom and to maintain our organizational conviction and unity in the group" Trinidad Castro
“When Ivy told me that I had to prepare clothes I was not using, I said in my mind, what is this work? Now I am seeing the great results we have achieved." Aura Orozco
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