WATANA KIT | Backstrap weaving loom kit with video tutorial| DIY kit gift |Peruvian order diy kit

WATANA – Backstrap weaving loom with order video tutorial

Your kit includes:
•100% natural materials: locally sourced wool and organic dyes
•Kit includes a video tutorial
•Producers: Community of Amaru
•Fairly traded

This kit is the perfect gift for anyone who wants to experience a traditional weaving technique dating back to ancient times, or anyone who wants to enhance their existing weaving skills on the backstrap loom.

Weaving is the interlacing of a set of warp with a set of weft threads, where you create a grid pattern. A loom is used to facilitate the weaving process. In the Andes of Peru, traditional Quechua backstrap weaving uses the backstrap loom, the oldest form of loom in the world.

The backstrap weaving loom is an elegant tool in its simplicity, effectiveness, and portability.
This Backstrap loom is composed of unwoven warp and weft threads, which you will use to weave a beautiful watana. The watana has many uses in the Peruvian Andes, since it can be used as a strap, to decorate a hat, as a wrist wrap or as a hair band.

The kit includes an educational video tutorial that will walk you through each step of the weaving process so you can follow the pattern as well as help you in recognizing the importance of backstrap weaving in the Andes of Peru.

This product is made in the community of Amaru using 100% natural and organic local sheep wool and dyed using natural plants and other pigments from natural origins.

All of our products are fairly traded, which means the indigenous women weavers that make these products are paid a fair price for their work and expertise. By purchasing Mosqoy Peruvian Textiles, you are contributing to the preservation of deep cultural knowledge and traditions practiced for centuries in the Peruvian Andes.