Sustainability

Casa Telar seeks the sustainability of traditional practices and ways of life in the Southern Andes through a productive chain linked to the camelid fibre value chain. From working with livestock farmers and fibre shearing for the production of quality textile garments, to the production of woven products of high cultural value and quality in their manufacture. In this way, added value can be generated through the following actions:

Territorial linking: productive - commercial
- Raw material (livestock farmers / pasture / shearing and collection centres).
- Productive processes identified within the territory and their cultural relevance.
- Local and digital marketing channels (e-commerce).

Textile museum research
- Inputs for design with identity: iconographies; techniques; colour charts, raw materials, among other traditional elements.

Technology transfers
- Local technical transfer trainers and monitors.
- Learning-by-doing from the production of textile pieces for market testing.

Re-encounter with memorial origins and woven codices.
- Community and shared memory through meeting actions and group activities.
- Cultural memory based on academic methodologies, bibliography review and lectures.
- Tangible and intangible cultural heritage in the form of pre-Hispanic, ethnographic and private collections.

Sustainable production chain
- Sustainable textile techniques and processes over time.
- Quality control and the ability to add value with traceability from shearing to the final product.
- Commercialisation and transparent management of resources.
- Cultural relevance and respect for local ancestral traditions.

Artistic/technical experimentation
- Creation of textile pieces or works through different weaving techniques (with and without instruments) to awaken the textile memory and the creative capacity of each artisan.

SUSTAINABILITY

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