Diamilda Bardales Vásquez
Embroiderer · painter · jeweller
Pueblo Nuevo de Alcacocha
kene.world · Pucallpa, Perú
Many threads,
one world.
Hand-embroidered and hand-painted kené from the Shipibo-Konibo people of the Peruvian Amazon — signed and paid at the source, released a few pieces at a time.
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Not decoration.
What you are looking at
Not decoration.
A language.
The patterns on these cloths are called kené. To outside eyes they read as pattern. To the people who carry them they are a map of four worlds — rivers, lagoons, forests, and the spiritual realm beyond.
The kené is our voice and our way of seeing life, drawn in lines. It is not just a design — it is our world, our universe, our cosmovision. Demer · Pucallpa, May 2026
The designs were not invented. They were received, in visions, through ceremonies with master plants. Every artisan brings her own design out of that world and into yours.
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The hands the
The artisans
The hands the
lines belong to.
Every piece is signed by its maker. Every piece pays its maker. Nothing is anonymous.
Simi Vásquez Maldonado
Master embroiderer
Nueva Nazareth
Clara Celis Ramos
Embroiderer · painter · ceramicist
San Francisco de Yarinacocha
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Everything here begins
Why this exists
Everything here begins
with Demer.
Demer Gonzales Vásquez — Korin Niwe — grew up in the native community of Nueva Samaria, in the forests of Ucayali. His mother, a master artisan, placed the kené on his navel when he was two years old and taught him to paint and embroider.
In 2021 he founded Fundación Kene Rao — the first institution in Peru working on intellectual property rights for the kené, so that every pattern pays the woman who authored it.
Before, the kené was patented without consent, without consultation, without royalties. They stole a lot. We are the first institution that took the initiative to change that. Demer
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