Ethical Fashion News | we are all knit together

Our fashion line is handcrafted by in Peru, where they have the longest history of textile design in the world. We match artisan workshops with the designs and fibers with which they specialize, assuring the most precise detail, and most exquisite quality and feel. Traditional knitting skills are often passed...

As a young girl growing up in the Puno region of the Peruvian Highlands, Faustina Herma Roque Ticona—or ‘Herma’—helped her family raise alpacas. Her mother taught her to knit at an early age, using only sticks as knitting needles, along with a small, traditional hand loom. Over the years, Herma became an exceptional knitter, and has been handcrafting knits for INDIGENOUS since 2000.

Evangelina Arivilica's knitting cooperative brings the women of her community together.  Evangelina Arivilica leads an artisan knitting group in the steep community of Nueva Aboarada, just outside Arequipa Peru. A Quechua speaker originally from the Puno region near Lake Titicaca, Eva learned hand knitting at an early age. As a young girl Eva first started knitting...

Though she wasn't always a stitch designer, Berta was always an artist at heart. Her skills and passion have woven her into the INDIGENOUS family, and over the years she has created some of our most beautiful and unique knits. Find out how fair trade drives her creativity. 

Basic Layering Recipe: Start with a lightweight organic cotton top. Add a soft knit sweater or cardigan. Throw on a jacket or coat. Wrap a cozy fair trade scarf around your neck. Don't forget the bottom bits (skirts and pants). Our favorite choices for fall are short and middi skirts......