We help indigenous artisans navigate working-momdom. As a result, they can achieve economic independence in impoverished communities. Here are 8 ways we're making an impact in the lives of the women who make our fair trade clothing.
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Posted on March 26 2018
We may be one of the first fair trade fashion companies, but that’s not where our story ends. Our efforts are ongoing, and we strive constantly to find new ways of impacting our artisans lives for the better.
Machine Handknitting
Posted on March 13 2018
Handcrafted clothing created on handknitting machines by highly skilled artisans. In the first stage of using these hand operated, hand-powered looms, artisans create knit panels. These high quality knit panels are then hand-linked together. This hand-linking requires intensive training, practice and skill. While this type of hand-finishing is more time...
Handknit Clothing
Posted on March 09 2018
Our fashion line is handcrafted by in Peru, where they have the longest history of textile design in the world. We match artisan workshops with the designs and fibers with which they specialize, assuring the most precise detail, and most exquisite quality and feel. Traditional knitting skills are often passed...
Meet Herma, from Knitting with Sticks to Leading her own Workshop
Posted on March 09 2018
As a young girl growing up in the Puno region of the Peruvian Highlands, Faustina Herma Roque Ticona—or ‘Herma’—helped her family raise alpacas. Her mother taught her to knit at an early age, using only sticks as knitting needles, along with a small, traditional hand loom. Over the years, Herma became an exceptional knitter, and has been handcrafting knits for INDIGENOUS since 2000.