A Textile Story in Natural Colors

Oshcool and his friends are a series of Amazonian animals made from cloth dyed and painted with natural dyes, using traditional techniques from the Yanesha communities of the “Palcazu Valley.” These characters are represented as small textile amulets or guardians that accompany you.

Based on a story about the fauna in the Palcazu Valley, the narrative is shared by Yanesha artisans during textile product workshops. It is proposed as a product that uses small fabric scraps leftover from other products and can be made entirely by hand without a sewing machine.

This work is in co-production with Yanesha artisans from the Palcazu Valley.

(Mountain ocelot = Oshcool, in Yanesha dialect).