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It has been twenty-four years since that cloudy and rainy June morning in downtown Lima. I was stopped in a busy park by a teenager, asking if he could shine my dusty shoes for one sol….Daniel Cateno Velasco was 16 years old, growing up away from his family to support himself and not be a burden to his ailing parents who struggled to keep their small farm and younger siblings 200 kilometers away from Peru’s crowded capital city. In conversation he confessed to being hungry and unable to secure a …

Have you ever faced the question, is the Alpaca different from the Llama?  I think yes because many of us don't know about alpaca and Llama differences. Alpaca is a domesticated species whereas Llama is a species of wooly domesticated mammal. Alpacas and llamas are both in the camelid family hailing from South America. If you saw one of them you might get confused whether it is an alpaca or llama, People may think they saw the alpaca but in reality, it was a llama because they …

Buy direct from Sanyork Fair Trade artisan producers selling online 24/7We ship direct to your doorstepTo maintain the integrity of a direct relationship between the producer, we offer direct fulfilment from our shipping room to our buyer. This ensures that we provide you with direct from the workshop pricing. No middle man, just real people who are passionate about what they do! With a mission for over 21 years to create opportunities for artisans in Peru, Mexico and Guatemala. Allowing artisan …

As the current crisis has unraveled, so have the working patterns that make up our in-house production. On Friday January 29th another 100% lockdown was declared in Peru and we were forced to shutdown our workshop and send all the work to our artisans homes.Our office staff will stay home through February 19th. As a consequence our first week of February cargo is grounded through after February 25th 2021One more struggle in the darkness of this difficult situation that we know our resilient arti …

Artisanal craftsmanship is intertwined within the fabric of Peru, with the tradition of weaving stretching back 5,000 years, from the coastal cities of Paracas and Nazca, to the high Andean peaks of Cusco and Ayacucho.This rich heritage will not protect itself, however, as it is vulnerable, as every consumer industry is, to losing a demand and thus not being able to support the supply.The first point to tackle this issue, of generating popularity amongst a largely unknown source of fashion in we …