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Hands weaving colourful striped cloth on a loom, Cusco

Living Culture

Weaving cooperatives

Spinning, natural dyeing and backstrap looms, with the weavers who run the cooperative and set the prices.

Effort
Gentle
Altitude
~3,700 m · Very highverify
Who it suits
Everyone, especially families and makers.
Where
Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Maras & Moray, Lake Titicaca & Puno (Uros, Taquile)

In community cooperatives around the Sacred Valley, weavers show how wool becomes thread and how plants, minerals and cochineal insects become colour.

Every visit we plan is paid directly to the cooperative, and anything you buy goes straight to the person who made it.

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