1000 villages

I visited a store called “Ten Thousand Villages” on my day out in Rockville. This store supports the ideas of fair trade and sells crafts from cooperatives in developing countries all over the world. I spent well over an hour in this store looking at all the fantastic craft pieces and finally tracked down a piece from Bolivia – the above pictured bear! made from alpaca. This was the last thing I expected to see from Bolivia and am thinking that there must be some weving cooperative with products that are more representative of Bolivian culture to sell.