Kene Rao
kene.world · Pucallpa, Perú
MUNDO DE
LOS DISEÑOS.
Licensed Shipibo-Konibo kené from master artisans in Pucallpa. One-of-one pieces, signed and paid at the source, shipped from the Netherlands.
02 — The founder
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. “The kené is everything to me,” he says. “It is a universe.”
In 2021 he founded Fundación Kene Rao — the first institution in Peru defending the Shipibo-Konibo people’s right to their own designs, so that every pattern pays the woman who authored it.
03 — The artisans
The hands
the lines belong to.
Every piece is signed by its maker. Every piece pays its maker. Nothing is anonymous.
Diamilda Bardales Vásquez
Simi Vásquez Maldonado
Clara Celis Ramos