MATERIALS

Leather

Our unique leather handbags, purses and accessories are made from traditional, high quality Andean goat and llama skin. The llama was the Inca´s preferred beast of burden, and is still widely used today in the countryside for transport, wool and meat. A by-product of this use is the leather of the animal skins, of which only a small portion is soft enough to be used in the making of small handbags and accessories.

Leather
Smooth Goat Skin Leather - Black Goat Skin Textured Leather - Black Napa Goat Skin Smooth Goat Skin Leather - Black Olive Goat Skin Smooth Goat Skin Leather - Bronze Goat Skin Smooth Goat Skin Leather - Caramel Goat Skin Smooth Goat Skin Leather - Chocolate Goat Skin Smooth Goat Skin Leather - Dark Silver Goat Skin Smooth Goat Skin Leather - Caramel Speckled Effect Goat Skin Smooth Goat Skin Leather - Red Goat Skin Smooth Goat Skin Leather - Red Goat Skin Textured Leather - Red Napa Goat Skin Textured Leather - Black Texture Llama Skin Leather Textured Leather - Black Turtle Pattern Goat Skin Leather Leather

Hand-made fabrics

Andean goat skin is used for the majority of larger bags as it comes in larger, better quality sections. Combined with this leather are the traditional, hand-made fabrics from two mountain villages near Cusco. We use two distinctive styles from two Peruvian villages of Ocongate and Paruro.

Ocongate:

Ocongate is a small village in the shadow of the mighty 6300m high Ausangate mountain. This is a very traditional village and its people fiercely conserve their heritage in weaving and local fiestas. The biggest fiesta is the pilgrimage to bring glacial ice from the ice covered slopes of Ausangate. Hundreds of people get involved every year and it is spectacular sight.

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Paruro:

Paruro is a small commercial town to the south of Cusco high in the mountains, people here live a very traditional old fashioned life weaving, farming and trading in small scale produce.

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