Peruvian Wool Llama

I bought this for my own living room because of the gorgeous llamas and flowers. I loaned it to my church for Kiva Month, and took it back at the end of the month. So many people told me they loved it and wanted it back, that I bought another one to donate to the church. It hangs at the front of the sanctuary and brightens the whole church.

Eliazar Ochoa is one of half a dozen Peruvian artisans whose page I try to check every month or so for new work; I had a rug and another tapestry by him already. I love depictions of animals. especially when they are animals you don't commonly see depicted as with llamas and rheas, two distinctly South American animals (my other tapestry from him is all condors). And while purple is my favorite color, I do like orange as well, and I saw there was a bit of purple in this. This tapestry currently occupies pride of place, on the door to my office. Which means that at close range, I've realized the faces of the cats are kind of creepy. But I'm not really sure how you could do better on a loom, and I have also seen much worse cat faces! As I look at them more, I think I definitely prefer : | to a badly done : 3 (the most popular simplified cat face), and it makes a lot more sense on a loom as well!

My granddaughter adores llamas, This Christmas I packed this belt inside the Llama glam in gray cosmetic bag by Alicia Huaman. My grabddaughter loved all the llamas and I appreciated the skill required to master both weaving and embroidery, I highly recommend this artisan,