Introducing Anabel Sanabria
Anabel Sanabria lives in Huancayo, Peru with her parents.
She attended the Instituto Continental College where she studied textiles.
Anabel’s extraordinary talent in textiles gained her a third prize in the national Arte Michell competition.
The bag was embroidered with traditional stitches and depicts the colourful butterflies of Peru.
Embroidery is a skill passed down to Anabel through the generations from her Grandmother and Mother.
Anabel is passionate about embroidery and also about passing on the traditional skills. Working in her studio in Huancayo her dream is to start a business so she can employ local women and pass on those extraordinary embroidery skills.