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Company name: Sumaya
Specialty: Alpaca fabrics
Technique: Home knitting machine / hand knitting
Location: El Alto, Bolivia.
Type of company: Sole...
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Company Name: Illa Magic
Specialty: Alpaca fabrics
Technique: Domestic knitting machine, hand knitting/weaving.
Place: El Alto, Bolivia.
Type...
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Specialty: alpaca textiles
Technique: home knitting/weaving machine and by hand
Location: Sopocachi in downtown La Paz
Year established:...
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How do you wash alpaca garments?
Alpaca fiber is a luxurious, valuable and delicate product, so it is very important to care for alpaca garments to...
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Even though synthetic fibers have revolutionized the textile industry during the second half of the 20th century, natural fibers, such as alpaca...
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Starting in July, the Warmis association opened their doors for us to attend one of their meetings. This happy group of women was organized a little...
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Bolivialpaca is a company which caserita.com works with since 2011. This company is mainly dedicated to spinning alpaca wool. They are organized by...
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One rainy March afternoon we visited Doña Celia's workshop located in Villa Armonía, one of the areas affected by landslides recently...
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Victoria Marca, a weaver and entrepreneur, owns Wiñay Lurata, which means "made to last" in Aymara. She makes alpaca wool garments.
We spent...
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Doña Aurelia is a smiling cholita who cheerfully opens the doors to her shop to share her experiences as an entrepreneur, weaver and artist...
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Elizabeth Campos, with whom we've been working since 2009, opened the doors of her workshop and welcomed us warmly so that we could discover the...
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Patricia Palle, a Bolivian woman with a constant desire for knowledge and improvement, is an open and friendly person. Thanks to her personality, the...
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In 2005 COPROCA S.A. created a collection of alpaca wool garments to promote the sale of alpaca fleece and to generate jobs for its handcrafters....
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COPROCA S.A, the camelid product company, is the first and only alpaca wool company in the hands of Bolivia’s rural population. This company...
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A technique utilized by many generations of weavers has been passed on to the Luna family. In this technique, using a rustic loom and a horizontal...
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