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Andean Textile Magic: Engaging Weaving Workshop in Cusco
Immerse yourself in Andean textile magic in Cusco with an engaging weaving workshop. Dye your own wool and create your own textile piece while learning from UNESCO-awarded master weavers. Be part of a unique and transformative experience that empowers local communities.
Immerse yourself in Andean textile magic in Cusco with an engaging weaving workshop. Dye your own wool and create your own textile piece while learning from UNESCO-awarded master weavers. Be part of a unique and transformative experience that empowers local communities.
Duration:
1 day
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Qaytu Peru - Upon your arrival to our workshop, you will receive a warm welcome from our artisans, with local traditions of our community. Our local expert guide will receive you and will provide you with all the explanation about our project, textile trajectory, recognitions, the textile industry in general, etc.
Then we will start with our…
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Qaytu Peru - Upon your arrival to our workshop, you will receive a warm welcome from our artisans, with local traditions of our community. Our local expert guide will receive you and will provide you with all the explanation about our project, textile trajectory, recognitions, the textile industry in general, etc.
Then we will start with our experience at the workshop, the first activitie will be going out to collect plants, prepare the wool and dyeing process. for this activitie you will have an assistan who will guide you through the process of dyeing and weaving.
We will provide you all the materials required in the workshop and everything you produce can be taken home.
What's Included
- Private transportation
- Workshop materials provided
- Take home your own creation
- All fees and taxes included
- Complimentary tea and coffee
- Lunch provided
- Private transportation
- Workshop materials provided
- Take home your own creation
- All fees and taxes included
- Complimentary tea and coffee
- Lunch provided
Additional Information
Live this unique experience of dyeing with plants and weaving in backstrap loom technique together with great master weavers of Peru awarded by UNESCO, we want you to be involved, dyeing your own wool, make your own textile piece.
–This is the only tour in Cusco that allows you to live this kind of experiences.
–We don`t just show you the textile…
Live this unique experience of dyeing with plants and weaving in backstrap loom technique together with great master weavers of Peru awarded by UNESCO, we want you to be involved, dyeing your own wool, make your own textile piece.
–This is the only tour in Cusco that allows you to live this kind of experiences.
–We don`t just show you the textile process, you will do the process
–We were honored to receive Jean-Bernard Münh who is the president of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO since 2012.
–This kind of experiences helps local people to give more value to what they do.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Jesspq8101uv
Feb 13, 2025
Excellent experience - Our tour guide Nayda was amazing and gave us valuable information about local traditions and textile knowledge.
Mariluz and Bernardino were the women from the communities and they welcomed us with open arms. We had a wonderful experience learning about the effort required to make textiles.
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Vereniki_m
Feb 1, 2025
Fun and creative - experience that brings you a bit closer to some of the women of the textile Patabamba community!! You get to make your oun textile through their guidance, eat amazing food all togeather, dance and share the knowledge of plants and natural dyies! We will hold this day to our hearts!
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Paradise816129
Jan 31, 2025
The most genuine experience in Peru... - ....was the textile workshop!!! We had the opportunity to get to know the amazing womanhood from the Patabamba community! Beautiful women with so much knowledge! We had a full day with them sharing fresh fruites, dying alpaca thread with natural colours we made, had the luck to have an unforgetable lunch with them, learned to weave a traditional pattern and even got to dance all togeather! We will hold this day to our hearts!! 💙💙
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Rachaeltz2647rr
Jan 16, 2025
A great workshop! - This was a really interesting workshop! Nadya was a great guide and translator—friendly, engaged, and very knowledgeable about the weaving process. It was interesting to hear Quechua and learn about the traditional communities in the area. I really enjoyed seeing how the dyes are made and watching the entire process unfold. It was also a lot of fun creating my own little bookmark! The workshop gave me a deeper appreciation for the craftsmanship and technical skill behind the handmade pieces you see around Peru. I recommend this experience!
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Candice_a
Nov 25, 2024
Such an unforgettable... - Such an unforgettable experience, it was an honor to spend the entire day in Calca with the local community and to better understand the intricate process of textiles. It was a memorable experience and informative. To be able to learn about plant dyes, to forage, eat local cuisine and create your own piece. It is clear the attention to detail and care that went into creating this experience. Thank you!
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Elliott_s
Nov 23, 2024
I’m usually skeptical of tours like this, but this one was profound and beautiful - This experience was, in a word, amazing. Typically I’m pretty skeptical of most “cultural immersion” visits and worry about feeling extractive or voyeuristic.
Our guide Nayda and our master weaver teachers Julia and Maria were so generous, genuinely interested in our learning, and so open-minded- and they showed us all the steps of the dyeing and weaving process with patience and excitement. They are clearly committed to both preserving the textile arts that the family there has been a leader in advancing, but also making sure to honor the cultures that created them in the first place. We ate delicious food, learned some Quechua, and learned a ton About the Depth and beauty in the textile arts of the sacred Valley.
Come with an open mind and you will not regret this amazing experience!
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59mariliiss
Aug 26, 2024
Unforgettable weaving workshop! - We joined the weaving workshop at Qaytu Peru. Our guide was Edwin who was great in explaining everything and also translating the guidelines of Francesca and Lucía, our teachers for the day. The experience was one of our favorites in our whole Peru trip! The whole day was filled with new knowledge and fun activities. First we went through some theory and then tried our hand in each of the steps of textile making: collecting plants, preparing the dyes, dyeing and then weaving.
We did appreciate the woven textiles before coming to this workshop but now having tried to weave ourselves, we found it to be so much more complex and amazing. Thank you for this wonderful day, we will remember it forever!
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Kristine_m
Aug 22, 2024
A Day Well Spent - This was a wonderful way to spend my time in Cusco. The transportation was coordinated perfectly. The people were so hospitable you fell like family. The meal was excellent and I learned so much about the cultural art of weaving.
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Davidsl6432yq
Aug 18, 2024
Learning about the culture and weaving - It was a Great Experience. Nayda was a great tour guide. Our son loved dying his own yarn and weaving a bookmark, and so did we. Definitely recommend. Great way to learn about a culture.
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451marjag
Aug 8, 2024
A truly special experience- don’t miss it! - This experience is not to be missed and was one of our favorite outings in our entire Peru vacation!
My daughter and I attended this wonderful full-day tour together. We had Nayda as our guide and she was warm, personable and engaging. Learning about the traditional process of textile dying and weaving was exciting in itself, but it was even better to be able to experience how to pick and prepare the plant-based dyes and how to create a simple textile project directly from our two community hosts, Lucia and Adalina.
This experience was also two-sided: Nayda encouraged us to share our own culture and traditions during our delicious lunch together. At the end of the day, we each shared a dance that represented our community, resulting in fits of laughter from everyone involved.
We’re so glad that we chose this tour and highly recommend it as a way to get to know a very special part of Peru.
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