Traditional Textile Center of Cusco

A lovely small museum, but the main attraction is the wonderful shop. 100 times better than anything we found in the markets and all for a decent price. We did the majority of our souvenir shopping here and could have bought so many beautiful things!

Beautiful experience! You get to know the techniques with a very patient and extremely professional tutor. I really enjoyed the day of learning. I did the full day weaving and you get to do quite a lot for a day we learned 4 different patterns assisted by the tutor and left with the feeling of finding a new hobbie Love it! Recommend!!

We had a wonderful time doing a half day weaving workshop with Katy! It was a great experience for the 8yr old in my group as well. We came away with 2 small items and so much appreciation for the beautiful hand-woven items in the shop and around the region. I have done a lot of tourist activities around Cusco, and I would very highly recommend making time for this on your trip. Not only is it a unique and fun experience, purchases of workshops or items directly benefit the people who weave.

We had a great time learning and practicing backstrap weaving! We were able to complete one bracelet and then learn a more challenging pattern. Katie was an excellent teacher and we loved this experience!

Took a lesson in weaving a backstrap. Took half the day and was wonderful! Highly recommend if you enjoy doing crafts

I read a book "Secrets of Spinning, Weaving, and Knitting in the Peruvian Highlands", which is available in many libraries in California, US. From this book I knew the textile center and decided to visit it once arrived in Cusco. The live demo here is pretty interesting and the goods sold here are of high quality. Yes, it's more expensive than elsewhere and pay attention to the price tag as it's in US dollar, but you can still find something, for example, a 100% alpaca wool long scarf, with weaver's information, at $45, seems good to me; its feel is so soft and warm and the style is beautiful. You can clearly tell the difference between it and the things sold in the market at the other side of the street.

Beautiful shop and museum, very detailed and insightful exhibition about Andean textiles! One of my favourite museums in Cusco, it's pretty short but very well organised, the shop is also nice, it's expensive but it's okay seen the nature of the work.

Amazing!!! I did the 2 day class and practiced 4 smaller bracelet designs before completing 2 larger designs on day 2 and even learning how to wrap my own warp and prepare the back strapping loom myself. I left with all my works in progress which I will continue for my next week in Cusco and beyond. The class is well designed to prepare you to succeed, and the teacher has eagle eyes for helping you along the way. Truly so happy with the weaving class! Muchas gracias CTTC!