We are a cooperative which means that the Assembly of Members makes all decisions. They elect a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and heads of Technical, Quality, Store Room, Internal Activities and Exportation Committees.

Although we produce alpaca wool we do not have the machines and the skill to separate and treat it correctly, so we buy our wool from two factories in Arequipa, the second largest city in Peru.

The yarn we receive for a sweater is weighed and we must return the article weighing that amount. We work at home or while watching our animals and bring our work to or Wednesday meeting where it is inspected. Our meetings are the social event of the week. Besides knitting we learn all the news and gossip.

We hand knit to export, embroider, and hand wash too.

When our sweater is finished it has to pass the Quality Control Inspection, then is washed and packaged by hand.

The export Committee packs the boxes which are sent to Lima where there is a lot of paper work to do, and when we hand over the merchandise to a Customs Broker. They send it by plane to Charlotte where it passes through Customs and is delivered to the Artesania Pachamama USA Board.

They sell to you. We thank you for buying our products. You help us support our families.

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