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Peru weaves magic through textiles

Peru's textile industry generates over 2,50,000 formal jobs and serves many international clothing brands.

It produces one of the world's finest cotton varieties. Peruvian Pima is included among Peru’s flagship products.

The Inca country also produces fine alpaca fibers. Peru hosts 80 per cent of the world’s total alpaca population.

Since 2015, Peru has consolidated as the Pacific Alliance’s second largest knitted clothing supplier after Mexico.

Peru is also one of Brazil’s top garment suppliers, thus having ousted China in the T-shirt category.

Creating intricate, detailed textile designs, Peruvian artisans draw from the world’s longest textile tradition. With knowledge that stretches back millennia, it’s no wonder that their hands create some of the most beautiful, sumptuous fashion in the world. It is by this path that Peru has entered the world market as a textile superstar.

Textiles continue to play an integral role in Peruvian culture. They are given as gifts in courtship and are important parts of marriage and coming of age ceremonies. Because most of Peruvian textile creators are women, money earned from this art is more likely to go toward feeding and caring for children and improving the lives of women as they become larger contributors to household income.

 

 
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