Learn
Handmade tutorials
Sewing, dolls, gifts and step-by-step projects, to start with what you already have at home.
See the tutorialsLearn to create with your hands.
Manos de Oro is a place to learn handmade crafts and meet the immigrant women who turned their craft into a business. In Spanish and English.
What we do
Three ways to be part of Manos de Oro
Stories
Mujeres que Emprenden
Conversations with immigrant women in Canada who took the leap and started a business.
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Directory
Businesses with a story
A directory of businesses run by immigrant women in Canada. Find them or add yours.
See the directoryThese hands are worth gold.
What you can make with your hands has value. Here we learn to make it, to charge for it and to tell its story.
About
Made by women who create
Manos de Oro was born in Vancouver, in an immigrant family that believes handmade crafts can change lives. We want more women to learn, to sell what they make and to tell their story.
Our first instructor is Nancy A. Calderón R., a craftswoman and the founder of Dollicious, handmade dolls from Surrey, B.C.
Get to know Manos de Oro