The Cities

Every piece we make is named for a town or city in the Andes: twenty of them, from the Pacific coast to the Amazon and up over the altiplano into Bolivia. Each has its own page: what the place is, what it is known for, the cloth that comes from around it, and the cap or bag that carries its name. Not a travel guide. A map of where the names come from.

Peru, the highlands

• Cusco, the Inca capital and the rainbow weave
• Písac, terraces, the Sunday market, the fine stripe
• Urubamba, the Sacred Valley and the diamond weave
• Maras, the salt pans and the salt-pink stripe
• Puno, Lake Titicaca and the reed islands
• Huaraz, the Cordillera Blanca and the glacier teal
• Cajamarca, where the Inca fell, the earth stripe

Peru, the coast and the jungle

• Arequipa, the white city and the amber bag
• Nazca, the desert lines and the desert stripe
• Paracas, the oldest cloth in the Andes
• Callao, the port of Lima, the kids navy cap
• Tacna, the heroic city, black with an indigo stripe
• Iquitos, the Amazon city, forest green

Bolivia

• La Paz, the city in a bowl and the lake weave
• El Alto, the city on the rim, green and gold
• Copacabana, Titicaca and the sky weave
• Oruro, the carnival of the altiplano
• Potosí, the silver mountain and the night weave
• Sucre, the white capital and the Tarabuco weavers
• Cochabamba, the garden valley and the green bag

The cloth

The cloth families the cities are sorted into are on the weaves. The pieces themselves: headwear and bags.