Our Values
Old technique, new object
This is why Orange Inca exists. You can buy something beautiful at a market in Peru, and we still bring originals home when we find them. What we make is something else. We take a technique that has been done the same way for centuries and put it into a piece you'll use on a Tuesday. The Fiesta Mini is reed plaited the way coastal weavers have plaited baskets for generations. We lined it because you look inside. We gave it a drawstring because that's how you close a bag when your hands are full.
Nothing plain
We make colour for everyday life. Not holiday colour, the kind you can put in a calm room or on a black coat and wear on an ordinary day. A black bag from us still has something going on: a contrast handle, a stripe you only catch up close, two colours that have no business working together and do. If nothing in a piece was decided, we don't make it.
Nobody in between
We work directly with the people who make our pieces, with no agents and no trading houses. We travel to the women who weave the frazadas and choose each one from them in person. We sit down with our makers on pricing, planning and orders, so a good season for us is a good season for them too. More than 70% of Peru's registered artisans are women, and our workshops reflect that. Working this way gives us freedom: we can test a colour before we commit to it, design a strap and have it made, and order what we want in the quantity we want.
Finished where nobody looks
The lining. The inside seam. The label. You're the only person who ever looks into your bag, and we think that moment should be a good one. So we spend where it won't show.
Say what it actually is
Junco reed is not straw. Baby alpaca is a fibre grade, not a marketing term. We name materials accurately, and we tell you who made a piece and where, as far as we know it. If we're not sure about something, we don't claim it.
Made to be used
We make bags to be carried, shawls to be worn and blankets to be sat on. A piece is only worth something if it still looks right in three years, so that's what we design for, and that's why our care guides exist.