One Year of Rooted in Mexico: Why We Started

Rooted in Mexico turned one this month. We didn't make a fuss about it, we've been too busy actually doing the work. But it felt like the right moment to explain why we started in the first place.

It began with a simple frustration: how often Mexican identity gets flattened into a stereotype. Tacos, tequila, a sombrero. That doesn't reflect the richness of our culture, our people and our history. And at a time when plenty are trying to make us feel like less, we believe every culture deserves to be celebrated.

So we set out to do things differently. Name the maker. Name the place. Name the craft. And let that speak for itself.

We're two sisters. One of us sources across Mexico, working directly with artisans in their communities. The other runs things from Edinburgh, selling online, at markets, through pop-ups, and in partnership with restaurants and brands who want something with real cultural weight behind it.

There's no factory in what we do, and no middleman. We go straight to the artisan, we pay what they ask. Everything is made in small batches, by hand, by people and families who've carried these skills through generations.

Every piece that reaches you carries a name. The maker, the technique, the place it came from. Because that's the point: this isn't inspired by Mexican culture, it's made within it. A bridge between the hands that made it and the home it ends up in.

In a world that's grown disconnected from where things come from and who makes them, we wanted to bring a bit of that back.

Con cariño,
Carla & Constanza