In the same place that had alpaca and cuy, there were also women working to make alpaca scarves and table mantles. The gave demonstrations of the entire process.

Washing the wool using a local root to get all the dirt out.

All the wool made in this place uses natural dye, like coca leaves and insects!! The colors were gorgeous and I wanted to take all of them to crochet...too bad they looked at me like I was crazy when I asked if they just sold the yarn

This is the mechanism they use to weave the wool strands together, each color string represents something different (i.e. black is Mother Earth, white is the mountains) and what's even more fascinating is that the shapes in the patterns combined with the colors can be interpreted to mean different things! (I.e. The purple strands woven next to the blue in a triangle pattern is meant to bring good luck for the next harvest)

This was the center! Isn't it gorgeous? I wanted to spend all day there.

 couldn't help but take a photo here,it was just too instagrammable #blockedthewholeentrance #sorrynotsorrywaitingtourists #nofilter heheh