Manos Preciosas, S.A./Precious Hands LLC is a company based in Antigua, Guatemala and Louisville, Kentucky, USA and is owned and run by Irma Yolanda Zuleta (Antigua, Guatemala), John Barker (Frankfurt, Germany), Pat Sellers (Louisville, Kentucky), and Alfredo Hernandez Lopez  (Antigua, Guatemala). From Antigua we help and work closely with the artisans, who live in the surrounding communities, in all stages of creating their handmade products.

In Kentucky we market, sell and distribute our handmade goods world-wide. Precious Hands/Manos Preciosas designs, develops, produces and markets 100% handmade Guatemalan handicrafts. We carry a variety of products such as purses, bags, worry dolls, recycled products, cotton accessories, various keyholders , plastic baskets, and a large range of beaded jewelry which includes bracelets, necklaces, earrings, barrettes and rings.

Highlighting our Mayan culture, many of our line products have the originality of being made from recycled Hupils and Cortes, traditional dressing, from the Mayan people of Guatemala. Today we sell our products in the United States, Europe and Japan to wholesalers, distributors and fashion accessories stores.

Our Mission

Our mission is to help artisans make an honest living and prosper by helping them to produce, market and sell their handmade crafts to world-wide markets. We accomplish this in Guatemala by working closely with the artisans in all aspects of production and in Louisville by Making available to them world class marketing, sales and distribution technologies.