Every stripe holds a story older than memory
The stepped-fret bands encode mountain paths, river courses, and the four sacred directions of the chakana.
Color is gathered, never manufactured
Cochineal for crimson, indigo for deep blue, walnut husk for earth brown — each dye a harvest from the slopes of Imbabura.
Symmetry is a worldview, not a style choice
Four-corner balance mirrors the chakana — the Andean cross that binds earth, sky, water, and underworld as one.
Sixty centimeters wide, infinite in variation
The backstrap loom's width constraint breeds precision — every faja is a universe contained in a band.