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Cerámicas Jiwasa
Tiwanaku style ceramics, with pre-Hispanic designs using natural dyes (ochre) as traditionally done in Andean cultures. Kerus - ceremonial vessels - as well as products of more modern design but using ancient iconography such as condors, pumas, snakes and other symbols.
We are from Konkho and Liqui Liqui in the Ingavi province of La Paz where our ancestors made these pre-Hispanic ceremonial vessels with ochre and natural pigments for the Tiwanaku Empire long ago. We are currently in the city of El Alto. We have improved the technique and use electric ovens to fire them, ensuring their hardness. All designs, colors, and shapes are from the Tiwanaku culture or were inspired by it. We also make painted and glazed pottery.
We want to stabilize ourselves economically through our traditional crafts, which were inherited from our forefathers. In this way, we can rescue our culture to show the world. We want these crafts to be our livelihood - the key to a better life - and that they are valued as ancestral designs and techniques. That is why we believe in fair trade.
 Keru
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