Laura Dev

Supporting Indigenous Women Artisans

Piri Piri Threadworks — Collaboration with the Shipibo Meken Collective

Dying fabric with mahogany dye

I collaborate with the Shipibo Meken Collective, a group of Shipibo women artisans, to help create markets for their embroidery among global consumers.

Through Piri Piri Threadworks, we support the sale of Shipibo embroidery while also providing capacity-building workshops for artisans in rural communities.

The collaboration is oriented toward strengthening women’s economic opportunities while supporting the continuation and circulation of Shipibo textile traditions.

Related work

  • Shipibo Meken Collective
  • Piri Piri Threadworks Etsy Store
Shipibo Meken Collective

Current projects

  • Ayahuasca and the Cosmopolitics of Healing

    My first book, Ayahuasca and the Cosmopolitics of Healing: Interspecies Entwinements in the Peruvian Amazon, examines the relations, practices, and economies surrounding ayahuasca in Ucayali, Peru.

  • Extractive Worlds

    How histories of extraction continue to shape forests, economies, inequalities, and environmental relations in the Peruvian Amazon.

  • Soil Relations & Agricultural Practices

    Collaborative research on how farmers, soils, microbes, and agricultural practices shape one another in Wisconsin.

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