Otoño · Invierno — Carchi, Ecuador

Serious craft, worn lightly.

An Ecuadorian house of hand-knit baby alpaca and merino, made by the women of Carchi since 1975.

Discover the collection

For nearly fifty years, our family knit for other names.

Every saco, chullo and blanket, hand-knit in the Andes —

and worn under a label that was not ours.

Knotty is the day we sign our own work.

La Colección · Otoño Invierno

Knit to keep, signed to last.

The Margaret cardigan laid out on a highland picnic with flowers and fruit

Pieza insignia · The Signature

Margaret

A folk-flower cardigan, embroidered bloom by bloom.

Ninety hours on the needles, then days of hand-embroidery — the Margaret carries a whole Carchi garden across a navy shawl collar. One woman knits it, one woman signs it. There is no faster way, and we would not want one.

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Las Tejedoras · the women who make it

The name on the label is hers.

Every Knotty garment is knit by hand by an Ecuadorian woman in Carchi — mothers and grandmothers who learned the stitches from theirs. We do not hide them in the fine print. We sign the work with their names.

A tejedora knitting with orange yarn in CarchiRosa
Hands knitting a wine-red garment
Hands knitting a teal and cream piece
A circle of tejedoras knitting togetherEl taller
The tejedoras of Carchi outdoors
Firmado a mano

“Knit by hand by [Rosa] · Carchi” — the signature travels with every piece, from the woven label to the note in your box.

Est. 1975
the year it began
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years on the needles
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baby alpaca & merino
0
knitting machines. ever.

El Páramo · where the warmth begins

From the highlands of Carchi,
by hand, in no hurry.

Three thousand metres up, where the alpaca grazes and the mornings bite, the fibre is soft, the light is long, and a good garment still takes the time it takes.

Our story
Two people in matching hand-knit sweaters against a whitewashed wall

El Lookbook · girls n' boys

Warmth was never a question of gender.

Cut and knit to be shared, borrowed and handed down — for girls, for boys, for whoever the cold finds next. The same fibre, the same hands, the same fifty years.

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De la lana a tu armario

Four hands, no shortcuts.

  1. I

    Esquila · Shear

    Each year the alpaca and merino give up their fleece. We sort it by hand, keeping only the finest for next to the skin.

  2. II

    Hilado · Spin

    The fibre is cleaned and spun into yarn in the highland workshops. Nothing synthetic joins it — and we say so plainly.

  3. III

    Tejido · Knit

    Then the needles. Sixty-odd hours per saco, by one woman, from patterns kept in memory rather than print.

  4. IV

    Firma · Sign

    She signs the label with her name. Your piece leaves Carchi ready for cold mornings and a lifetime of keeping.

I borrowed my mother's Knotty saco in 2019. I have never given it back. She has, understandably, bought three more.

Daniela M. · Quito