Our story

A trade learned out of necessity. A business built through discipline. A brand named after the woman who made it possible.

Weaving is an age-old craft in these valleys, passed down through generations. Paulina picked up that thread in 1998, at eighteen, with the Sisters of San José, in Andahuaylillas. Since that day, she has never missed a delivery. Her client in the US has worked with her since 2014.
A knitter at Awasqa Boni checking an alpaca garment in the workshop.
“Here the women can come with their children, and they can work. Most of us are women.”

In the founder's words

Paulina, in her workshop in Andahuaylillas.
  1. 1998

    Learns to weave at 18, with the Sisters of San José, in Andahuaylillas.

  2. 2001

    Formalizes the business with SUNAT, Peru's tax authority. This marks the start of 25 years in the trade.

  3. 2014

    Peru's Ministry of Production selects her workshop as one of the country's 10 small manufacturers to take part in Peru Moda. That same year, the US client she still works with today places its first order.

  4. 2019

    Regional recognition in Cusco for the highest sales of baby alpaca gloves.

  5. 2026

    The clients who arrived in 2014 still trust the workshop: twelve years growing alongside them.

Recognition

What others said about the workshop.

2014

Peru Moda 2014

Peru's Ministry of Production chose the workshop as one of the country's 10 small manufacturers to exhibit at Peru Moda, the international fair run by PromPerú, where buyers arrive from around the world.

Read the Gestión article
These spaces are reserved for the certificates and articles the workshop keeps. Each document goes in as it is, with its exact year and name.

Several families make their living from this workshop.

Behind every garment there are hands from Andahuaylillas. We believe the people here have the talent to do export-quality work, and their families and children live from it. Weaving is an age-old craft in these valleys: that it can still support a household today, without anyone having to leave the community, is what every order sustains. It isn't a certificate. It's the arrangement we consider fair.

The Awasqa Boni workshop in Andahuaylillas, with the flatbed knitting machine and yarn cones.
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