Nativity Scene Arpillera Tree Skirt - Hand Sewn - Peru - sold out

FREE SHIPPING - This Arpillera Christmas treeskirt displays the Nativity scene in colorful, handmade detail. The tree skirt is hand appliquéd, embroidered, and crocheted in cotton, satin, textured, and metallic fabric. A joyful work of art! Measures 37 inches in diameter. $94.99. 72024

By purchasing this product, you are supporting artisans from impoverished areas of Peru. This item was acquired through the Alternative Trade movement, which pays fair prices to the artisans, and puts people first, not profits.

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Intercrafts Peru, the export marketing section of Central Inter-regional de Artesanos del Peru (CIAP), represents 20 Peruvian artisan cooperatives with a total membership of about 400 artisans and their families. Representatives from all 20 producer groups meet once a year to make decisions about budgeting, operating costs, shipping, and to elect a new board of directors. Artisan groups belonging to CIAP come from Ayacucho, Puno, Cusco, Pucallpa, and the poorer barrios surrounding Lima. CIAP offers its members benefits such as health care, a rotating loan fund, advances to purchase raw materials, a community soup kitchen, school supplies and books. The women who make the beautiful arpilleras (tree skirts & bean bag nativities) are members of one of CIAP's partners, the Kuyanakuy Cooperative, which means "loving one another" in Quechua.

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