Cusco artisan and design shop in San Blas selling handcrafted leather bags, ponchos, ceramics and jewelry from local Andean makers, with a second location on Avenida El Sol.
Best for Second location carrying different jewelry designers
A La Lau is a Cusco boutique owned by a Cusco native, with locations at Cuesta de San Blas 522 in the San Blas neighborhood and at Av. El Sol 395. The shop's name means 'so cold!' in Quechua. It sells handcrafted goods made by local artisans: leather and woven purses, ponchos and serapes, hand-painted figurines, carved marble home accessories, ceramics, hats, notebooks and jewelry, positioned around fairtrade, heritage and design. It appears in multiple Cusco shopping guides as a stop for locally made, non-mass-produced goods rather than tourist-market souvenirs. No dedicated company website was found beyond the shop's Facebook page and secondary travel-guide listings.
Awamaki is a fair-trade nonprofit in Ollantaytambo that partners with Quechua women's cooperatives to sell handwoven and hand-knit alpaca accessories through its shop and online store. Revenue funds weaving, business and tourism training for the artisan members in the surrounding Sacred Valley communities.
Best for Hand-knit and handwoven alpaca accessories supporting women's weaving cooperatives
Km 23 Cusco–Pisac road, Sacred Valley (Cusco region)
Awana Kancha, a family-run living museum at Km 23 of the Cusco–Pisac road, keeps alpacas, llamas, vicuñas and guanacos alongside weavers who demonstrate natural dyeing and backstrap looms. Its shop sells textiles made by the highland communities of the surrounding valleys.
Best for Camelid encounters and community textiles
John Carrasco Cárdenas grew up around a family coffee farm in Santa Teresa, La Convención, that survived a devastating 1998 mudslide — the kind of event that could have ended a family's coffee history rather than started a brand.
Best for Geisha and catimor coffees with solar drying and double fermentation
John Carrasco Cárdenas grew up around a family coffee farm in Santa Teresa, La Convención, that survived a devastating 1998 mudslide — the kind of event that could have ended a family's coffee history rather than started a brand. Instead, he and his father launched Café D'Wasi in 2005, growing geisha and catimor varietals at elevations between 1,500 and 2,300 meters, using solar drying and a double-fermentation process to shape the cup.
The Cusco-area operation carries the weight of that survival story directly into its farming choices — the varietals and altitude range reflect a family that rebuilt on the same land rather than relocating after the disaster.
Between the geisha lots, the double fermentation, and solar drying, D'Wasi treats process as carefully as it treats the story of the ground the coffee grows on.
Chococuzco presses pure Peruvian cacao paste into traditional hundred-gram 'chapa' discs and bars meant to be melted into hot chocolate. Its range runs from drinking-chocolate tablets to seventy-percent bitter couverture and cocoa powder for baking, all worked by hand.
Best for Stone-ground drinking chocolate and cacao paste
Cusco boutique on Calle Palacio selling locally handmade alpaca sweaters, cardigans, and blankets alongside SaKé handbags woven with traditional Peruvian techniques. A courtyard café inside the shop serves coca tea.
Best for In-house café serving coca tea
Cocoliso, tucked into a patio off Calle Palacio in Cusco's historic center, is built around thick-knit alpaca pieces: sweaters, cardigans, shawls, and blankets in a range of colors, all described as locally handmade. Alongside its own knitwear, the shop carries SaKé, a handbag line made with organic leather and traditional Peruvian weaving techniques, and jewelry from designer Lorena Pestana.
The shop doubles as a café: a courtyard space behind the retail floor serves coca tea and other drinks, giving shoppers somewhere to sit between browsing the knitwear racks and the accessory displays. That pairing of retail boutique and small café, built around one shared courtyard, sets Cocoliso apart from Cusco's more conventional alpaca-wool storefronts, most of which keep shopping and seating separate. The shop is one of several small, independently run boutiques recommended in Cusco shopping guides alongside better-known names like Kuna and Hilo, reflecting a newer wave of Cusco boutiques blending Andean materials with more contemporary retail presentation.
Esma Joyas is a jewelry studio at Calle Triunfo 393 Int. 106 in Cusco, Peru, open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The studio sells jewelry collections, with rings highlighted as a product category, through its store, Instagram and Etsy shop.
Giuliana Testino is a women's clothing label that presents its work as seasonal collections. The collections include dresses and capes, and knitwear such as cardigans and shawls.
Hilo is a small clothing atelier in Cusco's San Blas art district, where designer Eibhlin Cassidy reworks cloth that is patched, overdyed, pleated and hand-stitched into one-off garments. The shop sells its reimagined silhouettes directly from a hillside studio open daily above the old city.
Best for Hand-worked, one-off reconstructed garments
Ilaria is a Cusco house for museum-quality colonial-era jewellery recreation, contemporary pieces with abstract Andean motifs, filigree earrings, statement necklaces with Amazonian seeds.
Best for Museum-quality colonial-era jewellery recreation, contemporary pieces with abstract Andean motifs, filigree
A French-designer-founded cafe-boutique in Cusco's San Blas, pairing handmade ceramics and textiles downstairs with coffee and cakes on a balcony above. A second store on Calle Carmen Alto extends the retail side.
Best for Handcrafted ceramics, textiles, vintage clothing and coffee
L'Atelier occupies a narrow building on Atoqsaykuchi in Cusco's San Blas, the hillside artisan quarter above the Plaza de Armas, and splits its identity by floor. Downstairs is a boutique stocked with handmade jewelry, vintage clothing, ceramics and artisan textiles -- sourced, in keeping with the neighborhood's craft economy, rather than mass-produced for tourists. Upstairs is a small café with a balcony over the street, run to a walk-in, no-reservations rhythm the owners describe as moving 'to the rhythm of our city.' The shop was founded by a French designer who settled in Cusco and built the concept around pairing retail and café in the same space, a format still uncommon among San Blas's mostly single-purpose storefronts. Coffee and homemade cakes are the café's steady draw, alongside fresh juices, and the small footprint means early arrival matters for a window table. A second, related L'Atelier concept store on Calle Carmen Alto extends the retail side with more vintage clothing and jewelry, giving the brand two distinct footholds in San Blas rather than one flagship. Between the two, L'Atelier reads less like a single café and more like a small artisan network -- objects and coffee both filtered through the same French-Peruvian design sensibility, a few blocks apart in one of Cusco's most walkable neighborhoods.
Máximo Laura, recognised by UNESCO as a living human treasure, weaves densely textured tapestries of condors, jaguars and Andean cosmology, shown at his eponymous museum and gallery in central Cusco. The studio sells finished pieces and runs multi-day weaving workshops in Spanish and English.
Michell operates as part of the vertically integrated Michell Group, spanning breeding to retail sale of alpaca products, with locations in Arequipa (Juan de la Torre 101, San Lazaro), Lima (Av. Oscar R. Benavides 5849, Callao) and Cusco (Calle Granada 291). It offers more than 16 varieties of alpaca blends and natural fibers in collections including Prestige, Terra, Cloud, Eco and Sock.
Avenida Berriozábal, Urubamba, Sacred Valley (Cusco region)
In a courtyard workshop on Avenida Berriozábal in Urubamba, Pablo Seminario and Marilú Behar make ceramics that rework pre-Columbian Andean iconography in earthy glazes. Trained staff throw the functional pieces while the couple sculpt the one-off art works, and visitors can join hands-on classes.
Gallery and atelier of Maximo Laura, a Peruvian master weaver designated a UNESCO Living Human Treasure. His handwoven tapestries fuse ancient Andean textile traditions with contemporary, color-rich imagery drawing on Andean spirituality and nature; the studio also runs tapestry-weaving workshops.
Best for Maximo Laura's handwoven Andean tapestries and tapestry-weaving workshops
Taller Edilberto Mérida, run by María Antonieta Mérida, continues the ceramic work of her father Don Edilberto Mérida, creator of the indio expresionista style, from San Blas in Cusco. Its exhibition, Barros Dorados, presents her ceramic pieces.
The Fair Trade Store sells Peruvian artisan goods through an explicitly ethical retail model in Cusco. Its Facebook profile is the available first-party path for current stock, opening information and contact.
Cusco (works with cooperatives across the Cusco region)
Threads of Peru is a Cusco social enterprise that channels sales directly to six Quechua weaving associations across the Sacred Valley, Patacancha, Mapacho and Ausangate areas. Its online shop lists handspun, naturally dyed alpaca and wool pieces credited to the cooperatives and master weavers who make them.
Best for Fair-trade handwoven textiles sourced directly from named highland cooperatives
Tukuy works in baby alpaca from the Peruvian Andes, producing undyed scarves, shawls, beanies and blankets in the fleece's own natural colors, named in Quechua. The brand sells its cruelty-free knitwear direct with worldwide shipping, its collections photographed around Cusco.
Best for Undyed baby-alpaca scarves, shawls and blankets
Yanantin jewelry is handcrafted by goldsmiths using lab-grown diamonds made with 100% renewable energy and 18K Fairmined-certified gold from ethically managed mines. The brand offers earrings, necklaces, rings and bracelets organized into collections including the Classics Collection and the Khipu Collection.
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