Designer Coco Paniora Salinas created the Rumi Sumaq Men’s Macrame Bracelet after many art show patrons requested a men’s design, similar to the bracelet Coco always wears. Coco obliged and created this dashing striped design. The men’s bracelet received a …
Rumi Sumaq Macrame Evil Eye Bracelet Gets Some Press
Exciting news! Our macrame evil eye bracelet was featured in the August issue of Memphis Health and Fitness Magazine as an Editor’s Pick. Get yours here.
Fine Craft & Friends in the City of Brotherly Love
This past weekend, Coco had the pleasure of exhibiting at the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen Fine Craft Show in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. For those of you who may not know it, the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen is one of the …
Spring Collection
Happy Earth Day! No better day than Earth Day to introduce the Rumi Sumaq Spring Collection in its entirety. Inspired by Spring’s budding leaves, designer Coco Paniora Salinas set out to create a fiber jewelry collection in bloom. The technique …
Rumi Sumaq Spring Giveaway
Welcome to the Rumi Sumaq Spring Giveaway! We are so grateful of your support of Rumi Sumaq, and we want to express our thanks with a gift to one of our loyal supporters. On our Facebook page we asked what …
Swinging Through Trees from the Spring Collection
As you may remember from our last post, Coco has spent the past few months creating a Spring 2013 Collection. The inspiration for the collection came from the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen’s call for artists for their “In Bloom” exhibition, …
Macrame Fiber Jewelry In Bloom
Coco is not normally a designer that plans ahead. Like many Native American artists, he is moved by the energy of the stones and lets the natural materials in each piece guide his creativity. Sometimes, however, the business side of …
Growth and Renewal
After our last post, which sadly detailed why we were unable to go to Peru this year, you may be wondering how we have been faring in Florida. Truth be told, we are not sure just how profitable this venture …
Uniting Hemispheres
The New Year is upon us, and normally at this time we would be making preparations for our annual pilgrimage to Peru. Unfortunately, however, our trip to see Coco’s family is not happening this year. The truth is … we just can’t …
Macrame Bracelet Giveaway and Blog Launch
We are so excited about this macrame bracelet giveaway and, dare we say, blog launch! Yep, it is true… we have finally launched the blog that we have been talking about doing for so long. Coco and I will use …