Bespoke Colombian fiber studio

Every piece is
an areito.

A celebration of Colombian craft: handwoven natural fibers, made to measure for the world’s most discerning houses.

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We create for

  • Home Décor

    Objects, FF&E & decorative pieces

  • Fashion

    Collections, bags & hats

  • Accessories

    Jewelry & natural seeds

A new house · A lineage of knowledge

A young company, built on half a century of trust.

Areito Gallery is new, but our relationships are not. We are the bridge between more than 150 artisan communities and the global houses that value what they make. That access cannot be replicated; it is earned across generations.

40

Years of legacy

Our mother’s life among Colombia’s artisan communities, in Cali.

10

Years mapping craft

Mayra, mapping Colombia’s master weavers, fiber by fiber.

150+

Artisan communities

Indigenous, Afro-Colombian and rural collectives across the country.

areito

/aˈɾej.to/ · noun

a ceremony of celebration

A ceremonial festival of the Indigenous peoples of the Antilles, joining music, dance and craft to honor memory, ritual and belonging, the way a community kept its traditions alive.

The meaning of our name

We named ourselves after a celebration.

For the first peoples of the Americas, the areito was how tradition survived, a gathering where art, memory and identity were honored together. We carry the name because that is exactly what we do.

Every object we make is a celebration: of a technique passed down for centuries, of the territory it comes from, and of the hands that keep it alive. We don’t reproduce craft, we honor it, and translate it for today’s luxury.

“Craft, celebrated as art.”

What we do

Made-to-measure Colombian fiber craft for brands that value tradition, design and heritage.

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Luxury fashion & accessories

Season, resort and capsule collections in natural fibers — for independent houses and global maisons alike.

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Interiors & architecture

FF&E, decorative objects and bespoke commissions for high-end studios, hospitality and residential projects.

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Galleries & collectible design

One-of-a-kind, sculptural pieces where craft becomes functional art for collectors and curators.

  • Co-design & material advisory
  • Verifiable provenance
  • Traceable craft
  • Custom finishes on request
  • Small, exclusive lots
  • Luxury export packaging

The diversity of Colombia

A country woven by its own hands.

Here, craft is not a cultural accident. It is botanical. Colombia is the second-most biodiverse country on Earth, and that abundance is the raw material of its art: a living palette of fibers, palms and seeds that elsewhere would take three continents to gather. The wealth of the craft is the direct consequence of the wealth of the land, kept alive by Indigenous, Afro-Colombian and artisan communities.

The technique cannot move, because the plant cannot move.

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Plant species Colombian artisans draw fiber from

252

Palm species in Colombia, more than any country but Brazil

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Living native languages across the territory

#2

Most biodiverse country on Earth

The living map of Colombian craft

Mapa de la artesanía colombiana, por departamentos
Source: Artesanías de Colombia.

One country, every ecosystem

A single country holds the Amazon, the Pacific rainforest, the Caribbean, three mountain ranges, páramo and plains. Each yields a fiber the others cannot.

  • Werregue

    The Pacific

  • Caña flecha

    Caribbean savanna

  • Wool

    Above 3,000 metres

  • Chambira

    The Amazon

  • A living taxonomy

    Some Amazonian languages carry a name for 48 different palms. English carries one.

  • From sea to snow

    From the Caribbean sea to permanent snow is 42 km. Halfway up the mountain, they weave.

  • Where the werregue grows

    The werregue grows where it rains almost every day of the year, in a place found nowhere else on Earth.

Sources: Artesanías de Colombia & Universidad Nacional (2008); Ministerio de Ambiente & Universidad Nacional (2015); R. Bernal & G. Galeano, “Amerindian names of Colombian palms.” Map: Artesanías de Colombia.

Our universe of fibers, materials & techniques

Each one, a community,
a territory, a technique.

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Colombia holds one of the world’s most abundant universes of natural fibers, plant species and materials of vegetal origin. Among the fibers, seeds and materials we work with:

* These are only some of the fibers and materials we work with — a glimpse of a far vaster universe of Colombian craft.

Clients & collaborators

Trusted by luxury houses across the USA, Europe and the Middle East.

5,000+ pieces exported: a proven track record with the world’s most discerning houses.

Found at Net-a-Porter · Harrods · Saks Fifth Avenue · Neiman Marcus · Bergdorf Goodman · Selfridges · Shopbop

  • Gigi Burris

    Hat design

    Gigi Burris

    Handwoven straw hats in Colombian fibers for a New York millinery house.

  • Johanna Ortiz

    Home & jewelry

    Johanna Ortiz

    Home accessories and jewelry for a Colombian luxury house with global reach.

  • Juan de Dios

    Resort & apparel

    Juan de Dios

    Home and fashion accessories across distinct fibers, carried at Bergdorf & Saks.

  • Hunting Season

    Accessories

    Hunting Season

    Fashion accessories, handbags and home in Iraca, Fique and Tagua.

  • Felipe Cartagena

    Menswear

    Felipe Cartagena

    Men’s cañaflecha caps, launched in his latest collection at Colombiamoda.

Other clients and collaborations

Josh · St. Étienne · Chevrolet

Impact & traceability

When the order stays, everything stays.

Meet Yulie, a fique weaver from Curití. She tells it better than we ever could; what a steady order really means for her craft, her family, and a tradition that would otherwise disappear.

Yulie · a fique weaver · Curití, Santander

"When there is no order, she leaves her loom. She goes to pick coffee. She leaves her craft, her home, her community, and the fique plant her grandmother planted is pulled from the ground and replaced."
"When the order stays, everything stays."

She stays. Her knowledge stays. The fique survives another generation, because someone orders every week, and pays on Friday, so she can go to market on Sunday.

Watch Yulie’s full story
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    A weekly income

    A dependable salary for a weaver in the Andes — not a one-time order, but a rhythm she can build a life around.

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    A field that stays

    A fique field that is not pulled out and replaced by coffee — an ancestral material kept alive in the ground.

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    A technique that lives on

    Knowledge passed down to the next generation instead of quietly forgotten.

150+

Artisan communities across Indigenous, Afro-Colombian and rural Colombia.

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Fibers, seeds & materials, each with its own people, territory and technique.

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Traceable craft — a story and an origin no factory can replicate.

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Export markets today: USA, Italy, UK, Spain, Greece and the UAE.

Newsroom & press

News, launches and press.

A living record of what we are building: collections, milestones and the moments that earn trust.

For press & media enquiries Contact newsroom
Areito Gallery — founders Cali, Colombia

Founders

Your ideal partner in craft.

Two sisters, two worlds, one mission. Mayra Gómez trained at Istituto Marangoni, Milan, and has spent a decade mapping Colombia’s master weavers, fiber by fiber. Stephany Gómez is the corporate strategist behind USD 1B+ in transactions and USD 500M+ raised.

Both built on our mother’s forty-year artisan legacy in Cali: the trust that lets us do what no factory can.

Experience

  • Istituto Marangoni — Fashion
  • Investment funds
  • Boards of directors

Exhibitions

  • Maison & Objet Paris 2024
  • Macrorueda Cartagena 2024
  • Bogotá Fashion Week 2026

Join us in redefining luxury;
honoring the past, creating the future.

Tell us about your collection, project or commission. We reply personally.

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