ACLLAHUASI 
Designers: Isabel Martínez and Camila Moraga
Concept: Our work is based on the research of abandoned weaving techniques found on millenary Andean Cultures of South America. We focus our studies on textiles because we consider that their perfection is achieved through their compositions, function and technique that convert them in a unique piece of art.
We work recovering the “anillado cruzado” or “cross - knit looping” technique, mainly used by Paraca (1000 to 200 a.C.) and Nasca weavers (200 a.C. to 700 d.C). Also by rescuing colors and symbols of andean textiles in order to create contemporary jewellery that convey the beauty and wisdom of this prehispanic art.
Technique: Cross - knit looping
Materials: Cord
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DAMAJUANA
Designers: Trinidad Lira and Juan Pablo Nazar
Concept: Each piece is inspired by the traditional Mapuche (indigenous Chilean people) iconography. They combine ancestral crafts with contemporary shapes and techniques creating formally sophisticated pieces of jewellery.
Artisans: Sara Toro from Maestra Madre Association and Hilda Díaz.
Technique: horsehair, silver.
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DANIELA GLOGER
Designer: Daniela Gloger
Concept: Her jewellery is created mainly by constructing geometric silver forms, which each contains a woven horsehair piece. Playing with patterns and bright colours, she mixes this ancestral technique with Chilean gems.
Artisans: Alba Sepúlveda and Rosalía Jorquera
Technique: horsehair, silver, lapislázuli.
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MANUELA TROMBEN
Designer: Manuela Tromben
Concept: As a designer and artist, Manuela's work has mixed tradition and innovation with the aim to develop pieces that convey a unique identity. Her creations are based on the study and observation of the artisans from Rari in the design of figures and forms made with horsehair. The main tools for her studies have being the photography and video, which represent an important audiovisual resource for a complete understanding of the context and process that underpin the technique.
Her main goal is to create sculptural jewels that symbolize nature and social processes, as well as small pieces, like brooches that represent miniature worlds and spaces.
Artisans: Marcela Sepúlveda, Nancy Cortínez, Ana Maria Palma, Hilda Díaz, Edith Oñate, María Zúñiga, , Maestra Madre Association and Panimávida Craft Centre.
Technique: horsehair, natural fibers, silver and steel.
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MONOCO
Designer: Mónica Pérez
Concept: The originality of these pieces of jewellery is based on the unique way in which they are woven. Horsehair, silver and copper threads are braided together to give life to these playful and vibrant objects.
Artisans: Inés Carter and Nancy Alcántara
Technique: horsehair, silver, copper.
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PAULA LEAL
Designer: Paula Leal
Concept: Paula Leal is a designer, artist and architect. She studied at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Valparaiso in Chile. She has been involved in a different kind of architectural projects. During her professional career she has implicated herself into graphical design and furniture design, supporting always a strong interest in the experimentation of different techniques applied to diverse decorative objects. During the year 2007, Paula was seduced by the delicacy and color of the crafts weaved in the Rari’s horse hair technique. Then she meets Mrs. Alba Sepúlveda, artisan born in Rari, living now in Santiago, with more than 40 years dedicated with love and enthusiasm to the labor of the horse hair weaving. Between them, there arises a creative dialog which materializes in diverse works of more experimental and abstract character. In spite of possessing different aesthetic looks, both embark themselves in the production of a line of pieces of decorative contemporary accessories, which reveal and value the great versatility of this technique. In these small works, the feminine internal world continues to be expressed with the same delicacy, laboriousness, color and love that are found in the most traditional works, but with motives that speak to us from an urban environment and crossed by the look of Paula Leal’s profession: architecture.
Artisans: Marcela Sepúlveda, Oriana Palma, Nancy Cortínez, Genoveva Soto, Edith Oñate, María Zúñiga, María Cifuentes, Maestra Madre Association and Panimávida Craft Centre.
Technique: horsehair, silver.
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ROSALIA JORQUERA
Artisan: Rosalía Jorquera
Concept: She has developed a colourful range of miniature basketery and figures. Rosalia´s handcrafts represent the work of all the Chilean women that day-to-day keep the tradition of the horsehair technique as it was once taught to them by their grandmothers.
Technique: horsehair
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WALKA
Designers: Claudia Betancourt and Ricardo Pulgar
Concept: Here at WALKA we create new ways to combine art, craft, fashion and contemporary design with a core concept of respect for ancestral traditions in a contemporary scene. This respect includes not only our ancestors but our environment as well. We make a great effort to minimize our footprint as much as we can by using recycled materials in our work as much as possible. Both our cultural and environmental sustainability efforts have been recognized by UNESCO with 4 prizes of Excellence of Handcraftsmanship (UNESCO, Chile 2008-2009). In this context, delicate and beautiful objects emerge with a strong South American identity. We are proud of being South American and of working to develop our culture here in Chile. We are not just “using” old traditional craft techniques, but rather, we come from a long family line of crafters and artisans ourselves (we are the 3rd generation of traditional Chilean craftsmen/women). This personal history puts us in a position to preserve time honored techniques while developing our own ways to take them into the future. We work directly with artisans with a focus on Fair Trade business practices. We have prescence in markets and exhibitions in differents countries us USA, MEXICO, AUSTRIA, CHINA, THE NETHERLANDS, AUSTRALIA, and CHILE. We are a small conscious group of people who deeply enjoy their work and representing Chilean culture all over the world.
Artisan: Rosalía Jorquera
Technique: horsehair, silver.