Awamaki Journal: A Blog About Textiles, Travel and the Sacred Valley – tagged "Aplaca Yarn"

Apr 14, 2016

Shear Quality: Shearing Alpacas in Rural Perú

Alpacas are renowned for their soft fleece, but few people know the intimate details of alpaca fleece harvesting like Adam Riley, a professional alpaca shearer with eight years of experience in both the United States and Europe. He has spent half his life with alpacas, and volunteered with Awamaki this past winter in order to improve our alpaca fleece processing. Long before Adam discovered Awamaki, he had been thinking about coming to Peru, the land of the alpaca. “It’s always been a dream of mine to come here and work with the Quechua people, and to see alpacas in their...

Feb 28, 2014

From Warp to Weft: The Complexities of Traditional Weaving

By Rachel Snack, Resident Designer for Awamaki Weaving has always been a complex process, but with the recent innovations brought about by modern technology, it’s become a more accessible craft. Here, in rural Peru weaving is a practiced, traditional, process and has hardly evolved past the traditional back-strap loom. As...

Aug 20, 2013

Hannah's Natural Dye Workshop with Daniel and His Family

By Hannah Bishop, Media and Marketing Volunteer This weekend I had the chance to stay in Parobamba and participate in Awamaki’s Nature Dye Workshop! We stayed with master dyer Daniel Soncco and his wonderful family and learned about the dyeing process in addition to taking trips to the family’s chakra,...

Apr 05, 2012

Lady in the Sacred Valley

After two lovely days in Machu Picchu, it was time to head back to Cuzco. But when my train arrived at Ollantaytambo station in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, I still had one thing left to do: meet one of the town’s most important organizations.Or rather,...

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