We are a Peruvian company with social purpose, manufacturers of leather accessories (bags, backpacks, pouches, travel briefcases, wallets and others), with ancestral textile applications of our country, fine items that are made inside the prisons of Peru, all handmade and with appropriate production capacity for export.
Through our pieces, we intensely promote Peruvian cultural diffusion, identified in the Inca looms and Kené Art (Shipibo-Konibo). Our line has unique and exclusive products, and we receive tailored orders to meet global needs.
After a successful corporate career of more than 30 years in leading global companies, I dedicated myself (for more than two decades) to my own Labor Reinsertion company, evolving it to represent the largest corporation in the field in Latin America.
As life would have it, 3 years ago I was offered to be part of the Human Dignity and Solidarity Association – Hubert Lanssiers, which is aimed to the social reintegration of inmates held in Peruvian prisons. A visit to their working places in the prisons inspired me deeply, seeing the exceptional work in leather. Thus, I directly felt the work of "pacifying and redeeming the Peruvian prison world" through the honest work of the inmates who manufacture products with high mastery.
This is how Llump’aq-beWorthy was born, a Peruvian family enterprise of Social Responsibility that, for us, means:
“To restore dignity to the inmates who, through artisanal work, make leather accessories, select and unique, with applications of ancestral alpaca looms from Cusco and Kené – Shipibo Art, with the firm purpose of showing them in multiple international showcases”.
100% HANDMADE IN PERU | 100% MADE IN PERUVIAN PRISONS
Cusco textiles were discovered by the ancient Peruvians approximately 7,000 years ago, making ropes, bags and utility vehicles of natural fiber dyed with vegetable dye. Then, with the cultivation of cotton and preserving it as the only constant and vital tool, they were taken to the “backstrap loom”. It is an overlay pattern that allows the weaver to make brocade designs on the fabric to suit the fabric.
The most common materials for Cusco textiles are alpaca, vicuña and sheep wool. They were hand-woven and dyed with natural dyes, reflecting a wide palette of vibrant colors and intricate geometric designs.
Cusco textiles were more valuable to the Incas than gold or silver, reflecting their wealth and status, transmitting identity and ancestry. It was also used as currency, being considered the most valuable object. To this day, Andean textiles are ritual instruments that commission the worldviews and cultural values of the Tahuantinsuyo.
The peoples who preceded the Shipibo-Konibo arrived on the banks of the Ucayali River from the North between 610 and 650 BC, that is, they have been in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest for almost 3,000 years.
Shipibo-Konibo art is called “Kené Art” and is characterized by the predominance of geometric shapes that draw or weave in their pieces, standing out for being very colorful, mainly in their handmade textiles. This practice of painting, embroidering or weaving is called Kené, a word that in their language means “design“. Kené Art is a technique made exclusively by hand, with natural dyes from the flora of the Peruvian Amazon, transforming roots into materials for the creation of mantles or looms. It is an art on cotton, where the work is also done with colored threads, embroidered by hand.
In our company we classify and carefully select the best Shipibo-Konibo blankets, looms and accessories, to fuse them with fine Peruvian leathers and first-class accessories, manufacturing them all inside the country’s prisons, in a work that combines the ancestral Shipibo-Konibo art, with the expert hands of artisans today deprived of their freedom. We produce unique and custom-made pieces in all leather utility vehicles and accessories, such as bags, backpacks, wallets, among others.
Av. Elmer Faucett 166, Callao
Av. Pardo Paseo de los Héroes 1080, Cusco
Av. El Sol Nro 954, Cusco
Parque España E-3, Urbanización Ucchullo Grande, Cusco
