El Cuento
Casa Montalma is about lineage.
Founded with purpose, Casa Montalma is a celebration of heritage and craftsmanship that connects stories, skills, and materials across cultures and generations.
Positioning Home as a living altar, Casa Montalma creates bespoke furnishings and custom textile goods that bring presence and reverence to everyday life.
Each piece is an invitation to remember where we come from, live artfully with what we have, and tend our spaces as vessels of connection.
In addition to inspired, small-batch collections, we offer individuated services for upholstery, redesign, and repair.
In April 2025 Casa Montalma was selected by Boulder County’s Sustainable Food and Agriculture fund as a grant recipient supporting a proposal for the Foothills Flax Project.
The mind of the Maker
The mind of the Maker
Ashley Gilbert Montalvo is a fourth generation seamstress and fiber activist raised in rural and southwestern Pennsylvania by two loving parents, from whose watchful gaze she escaped as often as she could through stacks of fiction and piles of crafts.
Around the quarter century mark, she traced her veins across the transom of Appalachia to the heart of the Caribbean, reclaiming her identity as a maker and storyteller, honoring her ancestors for the fortune and freedoms afforded by their sacrifice and prayer.
She is currently based in Boulder, Colorado where she lives with her cat Penny on 200 acres of regeneratively grazed open space, and commutes by bike year round.