Handmade Lace Knit Cardigan – Sunlit Heritage Tones | Peruvian Artisan Boutique Knitwear

Some colors carry memory. Mustard like Andean spice markets at midday. Orange like the light that falls on Cusco stone at late afternoon. Rose Gold like the warmth that lingers on your skin long after the sun has moved.

The Sunlit Heritage Lace Knit Cardigan holds all three — and in doing so, holds something of the landscape that inspired it. Hand-knitted by artisan partners in Peru using an open-lace chevron weave of exceptional delicacy, the piece is finished at the neckline, front edge, and sleeve cuffs with a triple scalloped border that adds a romantic dimension no machine could replicate. The silhouette is cropped and open — worn as a bolero, effortlessly, over whatever you already love.

This is the cardigan that photographs as beautifully as it feels. The one that makes the light pause on you, the way light pauses on the streets of Cusco at golden hour.

✦ Sizing reference: our models @qoyllorblaz & @chaska.blaz — twin sisters photographed in the streets of Cusco — stand at 160 cm / 5'3" and wear size S.

Made in small, intentional batches with Peruvian artisan partners. If your shade or size is unavailable, we make it for you — by hand, in three weeks, at the rhythm real craftsmanship requires.

Patricia, founder of Zia's Beauties
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