The Weaves

We sort our cloth into six families and name them in Quechua, the language of the people who weave it. Each family has its own page: the colours, what we cut from it, and the pieces themselves. The families are not regions and not seasons. They are the colour a length of aguayo leads with when you hold it up to the light.

The six families

• K'uychi, the rainbow, full spectrum. Shop K'uychi
• Tuta, the night, black ground. Shop Tuta
• Qucha, the lake, sky to deep blue. Shop Qucha
• Inti, the sun, gold and amber. Shop Inti
• Pacha, the earth, green and teal. Shop Pacha
• Killa, the moon, bone and grey. Shop Killa

The symbols

Four Andean ideas run through everything we make. Each has a page.

• The chakana, the stepped cross on every cap
• Tocapu, pattern as language
• Ayni, reciprocity
• Pachamama, the earth and why we make less

The cloth itself

How it is woven and how it wears: how it is made, materials, the weavers.

The cities

Every piece is also named for a town in the Andes. Twenty of them, each with a page, on the cities.