SATURNINA

I have been working since 2005, I learned thanks to my husband who is from Ayacucho, he is also a master craftsman.

I am from Cusco and we met in Lima in 1994 and went to live in Ayacucho. He has been working in weaving since he was very young, he makes looms, carves Huamanga stone, among others, when I saw that I also wanted to learn and I started working first making the loom bags with what my husband was weaving, then I trained more and more in Ayacucho, I developed embroidery and little by little I was improving. That's where it all started, with the beautiful embroidery and we are still working to this day.
Then we returned to live in Cusco in search of a better future, now we all work in this art. Now we can say that we live from handicrafts.

OUR POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT

We have built a business model based on the quality of life of our collaborators, starting with fair salary payments. We generates employment cocreating with artists from vulnerable areas of different provinces of the country.
More than 23 popular artists from Ayacucho, Huánuco, Huancayo, Cusco, Pucallpa, Lima and Arequipa are benefited by our teamwork with the craftsmen.

COMMITMENT WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

We have an environmental, health and safety policy that establishes group goals for key environmental aspects. To promote the responsible consumption and to educate our community so they will value the environment as we do. We produce 3 collections a year. We reuse all the waste of our raw material, making accessories or dolls.The materials we use come from sustainable sources, as well as the wastes of deadstock materials from the textile and leather industry.

2022 AIDER

The main objective is to promote the conservation of the Amazon forests, where families of native communities of the Shipibo Conibo and Cacataibo ethnic groups live, and to contribute to improving their quality of life.
We will achieve this by working hand in hand between Polleras de Agustina, native communities and AIDER, in the development and co-creation of "Products with history", which come from a sustainable management of natural resources, through the Forestry Alliance initiative.