Born in the Andes. Made for a lifetime.
Peru · Since 1931
Baby alpaca is not a material. It is a lineage. Woven by the same hands, on the same looms, in the same city at the foot of the Andes — for over a century.
The softest thing the Andes produces.
Baby alpaca comes from the first shearing of an alpaca's life — taken once, when the fiber is at its finest. Warmer than merino. Softer than cashmere. Hypoallergenic by nature. The Inca reserved it for royalty. We think more people deserve it.
The white city. The world's alpaca capital.
Peru's alpaca capital sits at 7,600 feet in the southern Andes, ringed by three volcanoes. It is home to the world's most skilled alpaca weavers — families who have worked the same fiber for four and five generations. Every Paqari throw is woven here. Nowhere else.
One mill. Since 1931.
We work with a single family cooperative that has woven baby alpaca since 1931. We buy the top 3% of the shearing — the finest micron count, the softest hand. Nothing is blended. Nothing is synthetic. What arrives at your door has passed through nine sets of hands and a century of craft.
We did not set out to build a brand. We set out to make something worth keeping.— Brian Rooney, Founder