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U.S. Distributor of Manos del Uruguay Yarns

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Supporting Small Businesses & Manos del Uruguay Yarns

Supporting Small Businesses & Manos del Uruguay Yarns
These are still unsettled times, and like many of you, we find comfort in working with knitting needles or a crochet hook and a skein of Manos del ...

Fair Trade from Start to Finish

Fans of Manos del Urugay yarns might already know that with each purchased skein of Manos del Uruguay yarn you will be helping a woman to support h...

Featured Artisan: Patricia Peralta

There are many wonderful artisans working as part of the Manos del Uruguay cooperatives.  Today we would like to share with you an interview with P...

Artisan Profile: Sofia Avila

We hear such wonderful feedback from our friends and fiber fans about Manos del Uruguay yarns. We would like to take this a moment to share with yo...

Artisan's Day

July 28 is "Artisan's Day", celebrated in Uruguay to commemorate the birthday of  Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres Garcia.  We would like to share w...

Meet Irene

Irene Méndez Guerra has been with Manos since 1978.  She was introduced to Cecelia, an artisan in the production group, by her brother.  It was her...

Meet Margot

Margot Silva works as a spinner at the CAUVA Co-op in Rio Branco, a small village of 16,000 near the Uruguay-Brazil border.  Here, the main source ...

Meet Santiago

Have you ever wondered who is responsible for your favorite colorway?  Our head dyer, Santiago, has been working with Manos since 1977.  Not only i...