Flatboat Fair Traders

Name: Flatboat Fair Traders
Address: Pittsburgh, PA, US
Telephone: +14124758580
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Flatboat Fair Traders is an ONLINE world artisan gift shop based in Pittsburgh, PA. Today, the world is much larger than just our Ohio Valley.

We partner with Fair Trade Federation member, Women of the Cloud Forest, to bring you unique products from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru. Pittsburgh, on the headwaters of the Ohio River, was one of the largest flatboat building yards in the early 1800s. From here, many newly constructed trading vessels would make their way down the Ohio River for a voyage of not just economic commerce b

ut also one of great culture exchange. With this idea in mind and a nod to our Pittsburgh heritage, Flatboat Fair Traders welcomes you on a journey to discover the Global South. Join us with our direct connections to artisans, their families and the impact that fair trade is making in their lives.

10/16/2023

We closed the physical doors of Flatboat Fair Traders several years ago, but Women of the Cloud Forest never stopped working in fair trade. We continue to attend conferences and holiday markets to promote our artistan partners work. We have focused on building our wholesale business, and we are so,so thankful for our wholesale partners who continue to support and promote our artisan partners.
We recently launched Wildly Fair, an online shop where you can find what was in our Flatboat shop. But there’s more. We are excited to offer beautifully curated gifts that will arrive perfectly packaged. We are also offering 3, 6, and 12 month Ornament a Month Gift Subscriptions, that we absolutely love!
We hope you will follow us on FB and Instagram and visit our new website wildlyfair.com. You will find fun facts throughout the website and shipping in the United States is always free!

10/04/2023

We have always offered wholesale and retail sales at Women of the Cloud Forest. But it was often confusing for our customers so we made the decision to keep Women of the Cloud Forest a wholesale site and we created Wildly Fair or wildlyfair.com for our retail customers. This is now what you will see when you go to the Women of the Cloud Forest website.

🦥We are super excited about Wildly Fair! Our new retail website allows us to offer an “Ornament A Month” Subscription Gifts and Curated Boxes as well as all of your favorite artisan made goods.
Although we now have two names, we are still one and our mission is the same - to promote our artisan partners.

Let us know what you think!

03/05/2023

Scenes from Masaya market today. There isn’t anything you can’t find here. And…we all learned something today. The hen in the first photo is creatively displayed with vegetables. What we did not know is that the “tomatoes” are actually the eggs of the hen at various stages. We even got school supplies for a school Ilsa Solentiname.

03/04/2023

Amy had told me about the dogs in Nicaragua, but there are many more than I expected. It’s one of the first things I noticed after Jairo picked us up at the airport. Most of them look like this girl-skinny, yellow, and pointy flopped ears. They could have their own breed name. They cross the highways and roads with a sense of purpose and without hesitation. Unlike the dogs I know, they don’t beg to be scratched or fed. They lazily lay in the shade stealing my heart.

03/01/2023

Happy March! Hopefully, Spring is right around the corner.

Here are a few of our favorite butterfly inspired gifts.

02/27/2023

Polar Bear, Polar Bear what do you see?
I see the ice melting all around me
This is not meant to be a joke. Did you know there only an estimated 26,000 Polar Bears left in the world (including those in captivity)?
If we don’t responsibly act they will be gone.

02/19/2023

Giants of the ocean are celebrated on World Whale Day, which aims to raise awareness of these magnificent creatures, their beauty as well as their ecological value to the planet.

These whales are hand-carved by our artisan partners on Isla Solentiname.

One of these whales is not like the other. The first one to identify it correctly, gets a free ornament in honor of Whale Day!

02/17/2023

Don Jose takes scrap metal and old car engine parts from local dumps and turns them into treasures.

02/16/2023

Fun Fact:
Mortar and Pestles were described in the Ebers papyrus from Ancient Egypt - dating back to 1550BC. It is the oldest preserved piece of medical literature discovered. It is estimated that mortar and pestles were used for 6,000 years before this for food preparation - mostly for the grinding of spices.
We offer several styles of tropical hardwood mortal and pestles - hand-made by our artisan partners in Nicaragua.

02/14/2023

Wishing you a day filled with sweets, happiness and love.

02/10/2023

Hand-carved soapstone turtle from our artisan partner, Don Oscar.

02/07/2023

Candy or Salsa - you choose!

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Pittsburgh, PA

Telephone

+14124758580

Website

http://flatboatfairtraders.com/

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