Craft & Ateliers in Cusco

Ollantaytambo, Sacred Valley (Cusco region)

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

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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.

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San Blas, Cusco

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

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Atoqsaykuchi, Cusco San Blas

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Cusco / Online

UNESCO-recognized master weaver Máximo Laura and his Cusco atelier weave Andean cosmology into tapestries of shocking color — collected by museums, visitable in the workshop. Peruvian textile art at its summit.

Best for Museum-grade Andean tapestry

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Central Cusco (Calle Santa Catalina Ancha area)

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.

Best for Contemporary Andean art tapestries

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San Blas, Cusco

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

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Cusco

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.

Best for Fair-trade Peruvian artisan goods

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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

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Cusco

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

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