Mayu was recently featured on an affiliate marketing site. The owner asked me for the story behind our best selling alpaca scarf. In this case, I choose one of our all time best sellers, the melange hoodie. Here is what I wrote (and yes, this is me in my hoodie to the left, most likely day dreaming about Peru…):
“Kate here, founder of Mayu. This Fair Trade certified, hand-knit alpaca hoodie is my favorite Mayu product. Let me tell you why…
During my last trip to Peru, I was busy working with Mayu’s artisans to create our new collection. I have a day job so everything I’d done with the group of knitters up until that point had been through the mail. Yup, snail mail. I sent samples to the rural Andean community where they lived and held my breath that they’d arrive. After a 10 hour bus ride from Lima up into the mountains, the designs arrived and the artisans were off to replicate them. When I arrived in Peru to my old Peace Corps stomping grounds, the artisans and I danced the night away to Peruvian Huayno music and got to work bright and early the following morning.
