FAIR TRADE STORE
AYNI BOLIVIA

La Paz Bolivia

 


FAIR TRADE

This small store is maintained by the Hotel Rosario which provides free space for the artisans who wish to sell their goods. AYNI has its own production of cards embroidered by hand.

The Hotel Rosario pays an artisan psychologist to be in charge of the cultural area, AYNI, and the store. The cards are made by mothers with serious problems such as large debts to banks, single mothers who are pregnant, mothers with many children, mothers in extreme poverty, etc. They need not only an income for themselves and their children, but also moral and psychological support. These women were trained and then started making cards to sell even though they had a ways to go to making the best cards. Little by little the women learn and improve the quality of the cards. These cards take from 5 to 7 hours each to make.

 


Handicrafts on line
cards


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the handicraft fair trade in La Paz


History about the embroidered cards

Our handicrafts

Ecowoods

Ecowoods is a Bolivian enterprise that works with “madera recate” or left over wood. The workers are young men who leave the orphanages in the city. They learn a trade and begin a productive life. They also pay the designers of their wooden products. They have no store as all their products are exported. In AYNI we have beautifully finished wooden puzzles of endangered Bolivian animals. The high quality of these puzzles makes them very exportable all over the world.

Creaciones Estela

Estela is an independent artisan who makes her living with basketry and dolls. Her “cholitas” have caused a sensation for being very natural and joyful. Her products are utilitarian and serve for holding bread and napkins. She is under the simplified regimen and has no store. She sells in the street. At AYNI we have a variety of her designs in several colors.

Taller de mantillas alpaquita

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La gran familia de Pedro Noa, de origen aymara hace estas mantillas de alpaca en telares rústicos de madera y macrame a mano. Compran la materia prima de las grandes industrias y las convierten en un producto artesanal de alta calidad. En AYNI tenemos la variedad de colores que desee en este producto.

Textiles en telar nativo

Chuspas (bolsas), taris (individuales), aguayos(mantas) y otros productos hechos en lana de alpaca, oveja o llama enteramente a mano, desde el hilado, teñido y tejido, es quizás lo más auténtico y de ayuda de la tienda. Diversas comunidades andinas, e interandinas dejan sus productos en AYNI. Siendo de mucha calidad y de meses de trabajo, ayni los apoya rescatando su cultura y sus ganas de salir adelante sin perder su identidad

Artetropic

Esta artesanía proveniente del Chapare (lugar de plantaciones ilegales de la hoja de coca que se convierte en cocaina) es parte del desarrollo alternativo donde los nativos y migrantes que se dedicaban a las plantaciones de coca están saliendo adelante con estos productos. Los joyeros de casacara de naranja y de hoja de plátano son netamente ecológicos y demuestran que estos procustos son otra salida al tráfico de drogas. AYNI apoya esta iniciativa con estos productos

Kunturi

Kunturi is also the creation of a foreigner. Kunturi works with the handicapped specially the deaf, the mentally retarded and people with speaking problems. The workers are trained in the workshop and are given their meals there. They do not live there but rather with their own families.

Paulino Esteban

Very few crafters of totora boats are left to demonstrate this skill. Paulino Esteban is one of these and he and his sons still build actual size copies of the Tigris, Ra Urus and other boats which have crossed the Atlantic Ocean proving that the continents could be reached before Spanish colonization began. Now he also makes miniature totora boats with exquisite detail in remembrance of his art. The sails can be folded down like a real boat. AYNI has replicas of the traditional boats as well as the transoceanic ones.

Sumaj Ori

Sumaj Ori is a family of ceramic artisans who produce good quality ceramics and they have a variety of functional and decorative designs. Because this it the work of only one family their production is limited and exclusive. They have no store. They sell on the street corners. At AYNI we have some of their products which are packed specially for tourists who wish to take them home and be sure they won’t break.

Tilinchos

Tilinchos is an Aymara family which is dedicated exclusively to ceramic figures which are very popular in La Paz. By the colors and the smiling faces one knows that they are from La Paz but they are sold in all the Andean countries. This family has its own store and they are under the simplified regimen. At AYNI we have a variety of their figures, all different and representing the various activities of the Aymara people both in the country and in the city. We also have their cars and planes.

Artesanías Sorata

This organization not only has fair prices but it also brings and maintains volunteers from abroad to work in local orphanages and homes for the handicapped.
Artesania´s Sorata makes sweaters and other clothes from alpaca wool colored with natural dyes. They also make typical dolls and embroidered and appliquéd pictures and wall hangings. They do accept credit cards. AYNI has dolls, embroidered pencil cases, children’s clothes and knit caps from this cooperative. AYNI also helps find foreign volunteers for their work in the orphanages.

Creaciones Valentina

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Los aguayos se convierten en varios productos en manos de esta mujer anciana que mantiene a su familia, bolsas, invividulares, estuches, monederos y llaveros que son un excelente souvenir y además barato y útil. En Ayni podrás escojer la variedad de diseños y colores

Aguayos


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Las cholitas paceñas usan una manta de lana acrílica llamada aguayo para llevar a sus bebes. En varios colores y varios diseño AYNI tiene gran cantidad en diferentes precios. Algunos copias de textiles antiguos y otros más modernos son una gran alternativa para llevar algi útil y nativo de Bolivia

 

  

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