BY Marcella Echavarria | July 12, 2010

Every year Tintsaba Crafts from Swaziland invites its 1000 women weavers to make unique creations of superb quality.  The result of the master's weavers competition is rated, catalogued and numbered by the women and then is brought to Santa Fe every year so that collectors and connoisseurs can have access to this unique quality and creativity.  Nomphumelelo made most of the winning baskets this year and she says with a smile that she is happy and this is why she could weave so much this year, "a basket can never be made with clouds in the mind and sourness in the heart"
 
 This amazing collection comes from swaziland, a small land locked country in Africa where instead of war and politics, people have devoted themselves to creativity, tradition and making a difference in their communities through the work of their hands.