We collaborate with craftsmen in various communities and ethnic groups, integrating their traditional techniques with new designs.
Our aim is to give visibility not only to crafts but also to their respective cultures, drawing inspiration from their rich traditions.

Inga

The Inga are Quechua-speaking descendants of Inca traders who settled along the Andean–Amazonian foothills of southern Colombia (Putumayo, Caquetá, and Nariño) and neighbouring Ecuador. Organized in self-governing cabildos, they balance rainforest stewardship with a rich cultural life centred on “minga” (communal work) and yagé (ayahuasca) ceremonies. Inga artisans are celebrated for intricate bead-work and back-strap weaving—craft traditions that keep their ancestral stories and ecological wisdom alive.

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Wounaan

The Wounaan (also Waunana) live along the rainforest rivers of Colombia’s Chocó and Panama’s Darién, where they share the Emberá-Wounaan comarca. Speakers of the Woun Meu language, they practise fishing, small-scale horticulture, and careful forest stewardship. Wounaan artisans are celebrated for coiled baskets woven from werregue and chunga palm fibres, dyed with plant pigments into intricate geometric motifs, as well as cocobolo-wood and tagua-nut carvings that echo forest fauna. Basketry—primarily the work of women—provides vital income and keeps ancestral ecological knowledge alive.

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Kamentsá

The Kamentsá are an Indigenous people of Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley in Putumayo, living at the cloud-draped juncture where the high Andes meet the Amazon foothills. Their language is a unique isolate, unrelated to neighbouring tongues, and their culture centres on communal “minga” work, chagra agro-forestry gardens, and the annual Bëtsknaté carnival that marks renewal and balance. Kamentsá artisans are renowned for vivid bead-weaving and hand-loomed belts whose colours encode stories of territory, cosmos, and healing plants, sustaining both livelihood and ancestral identity in harmony with the misty, biodiverse landscape they call home.

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India

Workshops in Jaipur, Rajasthan, print cotton using hand-carved teak blocks and natural or low-impact dyes, continuing a technique that has been practiced locally for centuries. In Himachal Pradesh, small groups of women cut and stitch those printed lengths on treadle machines or by hand, finishing them into garments.

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Jaipur stands on the semi-arid plains at the edge of the Thar Desert, where high temperatures and low humidity help fix printed dyes quickly. Himachal Pradesh lies hundreds of kilometres north and up to 4 000 m higher in the western Himalayas; its cooler, more humid mountain climate.

2. Prepare natural dyes

Printers prepare mineral, plant, and synthetic dyes, selecting the best for each fabric and colour.

4. Send north

The finished fabric travels north to the Himalayas, where it is sewn alongside pieces made from handwoven and digitally printed fabrics. Himachali women and men trace patterns onto the cloth, cut each panel with hand shears, and stitch the garments.