Macrame Dreams in Holbox: May 2025

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Claudia and I  are on holiday, I know you thought I had been on holiday for 5 months !!  We have come  to the beautiful island of Holbox for the last part of my month in Mexico, Our hotel is on Calle Julia, and is the most beautiful a set of thatched open sided buildings with 2 floors of rooms winding around two pools.  Just think Iconic Caribbean retreat.

To get to the top floor of verandas there are tight wooden spiral staircases and there is a racoon that lives somewhere around our staircase . The interior designers in this part of Mexico, maybe others, indulge in macrame to an addictive level and not your 1970’s tight knots with a random wooden bead thrown in style of macrame. They work on a  grand scale  of concept pieces and 'artwork' and I love it!

 In any tall ceiling space below thatched the palm leaf roof and wooden rafters you can find enormous macrame lamp shades, woven in simple, elegant patterns with meter long fringes. They use a natural colour pallet of creams and taupes, although the Magic Beach club on Playa Coco (where we spent an idyllic day lazing in hammocks, drinking bears and Mescalitas, eating ceviche and swimming with flamingoes)  had a theme colour or fuchsia pink for its sun beds, 4 poster canopied beach beds which are roomy enough to fit a whole family, and for all the hangings and hammocks - and the hammocks were on the shore line with their fringing dipping in the water. It was like the best dream ever!!

I saw Macrame product as we traveled to Holbox; we passed through a village with several macrame shops. There was also a shack with conch shells lined up on tables and floor mats , another strong interior decorating theme. In our bathroom the tap was a conch shell; really pretty and cool

In our room we had a fabulous macrame hanging over the bed as well as a macrame chair hammock outside on the balcony which incidentally had both a pool and sea views and I could hear the waves at night when the AC wasn’t too loud.  

In town there was a restaurant with a macrame instillation decorating its front exterior wall and almost all establishments had macrame decorations. 

It's a textile artists paradise as it is for wicker basket weavers and carpenters and street mural artists. All the hotels we saw, and we popped into quite a few, seem to be really thoughtfully and sustainably furnished and decorated with natural wood, stone and these wonderful rope and textile hangings.