Day 3, part 2

G Adventures for Good: Ccaccaccollo Community and Women's Weaving Co-op.
Visit the Ccaccaccollo community centre which G Adventures travellers' donations helped create in 2005, thereby enabling local women to sell traditional textiles to travellers. See local weaving and dyeing techniques used to create garments and souvenirs, and learn how the Planeterra weaving co-operative has impacted the community and those who visit it. The dyeing technique was truly interesting: they harvest cochineal bugs from cactus plants, dry them in the sun, grind them. Then they add a little water and then various other ingredients to make the colors. They demonstrated all of that. They weave from the fur of llamas (tallest), alpaca, guanacos, and vicuna (the finest wool). Both llamas and alpacas are domesticated.
Pictures 1-6 Sacred Valley Ccaccaccollo Community: feeding llamas, the ingredients, weavingLeia mais