Warmi is a group of 16 women that emerged in 2018 as part of the collaborative residencies of Mater. Warmi describes a woman with culturally significant skills for Andean communities, with the willingness to learn and the pride of knowing how to do something. How to weave, work the land, cook, raise children, and care for their animals; among many other things, they sustain life.

This is a route that invites you to delve into the deep social and cultural fabric that takes place in a high Andean community, understanding “social” by including all living beings that coexist in this territory: humans and non-humans, plants, animals, and all animated entities from the perspective of Andean philosophy.

Guided by the ancestral textile process as a symbolic thread that interweaves and tells about rural life in the Andes, the Warmi collective from the community of K’acllaraccay invites us to walk through the intimacy of their community and daily life; sharing their knowledge about working with wool, spinning with pushka, the collective and ancestral knowledge about medicinal/dye plants and their local uses, working the land, and the respect for natural elements such as winds, rains, and frosts that determine activities throughout the year.

In deep connection with nature, the Warmis (women of the collective) open and extend traditional knowledge and the life that is woven into textiles as narratives of a culture and maps of a territory. Once the route is finished (approximately at 13:15), you will be driven back to Mil Centro for lunch. During the eight courses, each step is directly connected to the territory and the ecosystems where you spent your morning.