“Before we had to plan everything with my husband’s money, but now we can buy other things.”
A core piece of our work at Awamaki is supporting our artisan partners with the training and education they need to be successful entrepreneurs.
“When I’m not working — but I always have to work — I enjoy playing with my son.”
High in the Andes, the village of Kelkanka is the most remote community where Awamaki works.
In a small, rural, Peruvian village, I witnessed raw material become finished product—quite a novel concept to the modern consumer.
“What do you do for fun?” is a question we get quite often living in the remote community of Ollantaytambo, Peru.
Alejandra Carrillo-Muñoz, our head designer, kept this idea of ‘the present moment’ at heart through her design process.
I returned from the three-day weaving immersion in Patacancha today.
Natural dyes are an art form that can be traced back 6,000 years here in Peru.