Ethical Fashion News | we are all knit together

Artisans use old world looming techniques to create our hand-woven clothing and accessories. This technically demanding art form allows for unique and diverse woven design. Panels are carefully produced on wooden looms, often in an artisan's home workspace. The fabric is later assembled into a finished garment by hand. This...

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...

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...

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.

Evangelina Arivilica's knitting cooperative brings the women of her community together.  Evangelina Arivilica leads an artisan knitting group in the steep community of Nueva Aboarada, just outside Arequipa Peru. A Quechua speaker originally from the Puno region near Lake Titicaca, Eva learned hand knitting at an early age. As a young girl Eva first started knitting...