The Makers · Miranda · Peguche · Quito

This is who “handmade” means.

Remu started in 2017 with three friends selling travel hammocks — until we realized we couldn't say who made them, where, or how. So we went and found out. Everything since has been built around the people on this page: one family-centered workshop network across the Ecuadorian Andes, paid fairly, credited by name on the label of every garment they make.

Work you can watch

No factory. A kitchen table, scaled up.

Children playing between the machines, cousins across the room, an entire floor of a family home given to the work. This is what your jacket's three weeks actually look like.

Raquel Llumiquinga

Head seamstress · Miranda

The very first artisan Remu worked with, and the center of it all. Every drop passes through her hands — she oversees production for the whole team from her home studio, now the largest home in her community, with an entire floor given to the work.

Sofia Tipan

Details · Miranda

Raquel's cousin and neighbor. Pockets, rivets, the meticulous parts. If your label says 'Tailored by Sofia,' this is her — her kids play alongside Raquel's while they work.

Carmen

Finishing touches · Miranda

Raquel's mother. She takes the last look at every piece before it leaves the studio — trimming, pressing, checking that it sits right. Graceful, unhurried, and the reason nothing goes out half-finished.

Wilmer

Patterns & machines · Miranda

Raquel's husband, a former mechanic who joined during the pandemic. Quiet, kind, keeps every machine running.

Naty

Studio & design · Miranda

Raquel's niece and the youngest of the team, studying to be a fashion designer. A ball of energy — she brings the jokes, the noise, and a designer's eye to a studio that has been doing this by hand for years.

Mario Llumiquinga

Blacksmith · Miranda

Raquel's brother. When Remu needed metal buttons, she said: 'my brother can make those.' One more craft kept inside one small community.

A Photo on the way

Amada Quishpe

Tagua buttons · Quito

Sources Tagua nuts straight from the Amazon and carves them into buttons at her workshop outside Quito. Vegetable ivory — the rainforest's answer to plastic.

Jessica

Seamstress · Miranda

Part of the growing circle of seamstresses around Raquel's studio — the network that lets Remu make small runs without a factory anywhere in sight.

Anita

Seamstress · Miranda

Precision work on every run that comes through the studio. In a drop of 130 units, each one is somebody's afternoon — many of them hers.

T Photo on the way

The Lema Family

Weavers · Peguche

The blankets that become Peguche Jackets are woven by Sandy Lema's family, on the same looms as their grandparents, in the village the jacket is named for.

Julio

Logistics · All over Ecuador

Every Remu piece passes through Julio's hands. He carries fabrics and supplies from across the country to the seamstresses' studios — then collects the finished pieces, packs them, and gets them to DHL. The quiet link between every workshop and your door.

Raquel's home studio, Miranda. The heart of Remu production for eight years — an entire floor of her home, the largest in her community, given over to the work.

Where this started

Three friends and a batch of hammocks.

In the winter of 2017, Jose, Juan Xavier, and Felipe started selling Amazon travel hammocks — planting a tree for each one sold. Waiting on the first batch, they realized they couldn't answer the basic questions: who made these? Where? Under what conditions? The company that exists today is what happened when they went to find out — and decided those answers mattered more than the hammocks.

How we work · Andean values, practiced

The rules we don't break.

Named, not anonymous

Every garment's label credits the artisan who made it. Signed work is different work.

Women-led

Our mission is for women like Raquel to be community leaders and breadwinners — households reorganize around her studio, not the other way.

One community deep

When we need a new craft, we look inside Miranda first — a brother who smiths, a cousin who sews. Money stays where the work is.

Pachamama

Upcycled and organic fibers where possible, Tagua instead of plastic, and a tree planted in the Amazon for the hammocks that started it all.

The Club · First access

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