Our team

Alpakita is a social knitting project that supports a large number of people in Peru. Our knitters string stitches together and knit knitted products by hand or with manual knitting machines using high-quality alpaca yarn. Embroidery is our passion. We design and knit our products ourselves; there is no industrial mass production in low-wage countries. For us, fair means that the knitter can determine the price of the handwork and that each person can knit at their own pace depending on their living conditions. Whether this happens in a collective or individually at home is up to each individual.

We have personal contact with all knitters and visited them in their workshops and at home in the summer of 2022. Here we would like to introduce some of them and tell their stories.

The knitwear is traditionally knitted with a needle. A wonderful handicraft. A lot of time and valuable alpaca wool go into these products. The silky, elegant knitting ideas for summer are machine-made. With us you will find knitwear for cold and warm days, as well as the transitional periods.

We work hard and with commitment on our Alpakita brand. We stand for handcraft, the best Peruvian alpaca wool and the social idea of paying the knitters fairly for their handwork.