Who Made Your Clothes? Sweaters: Millmachas
Finding “my people” was what I thought would be one of the more difficult aspects of starting Campo. I often get asked how I found my partners in Peru… The process started with “research trips” to Peru to validate the viability and need for this idea as well as “find my people”. If you have read previous blogs, you’ll know that I met knitters and weavers during my first trip to Peru back in 2014. I approached random people on the street whom I saw knitting and creating things. In likely broken Spanish, I asked them about themselves, where they were from, did they have a family, what they were making, and for whom. At the time this was just...