Millma
539 W Liberty St #784
Wauconda, IL 60084-2292
USA
Tel: 773-680-7213
info@millma.com
Stockists
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIAN ALPACA CENTER
The Market Place
Old Hume Highway
Berrima NSW 2577
Australia
Tel: 61 2 4877 1399
nic@minderoo.com.au
EUROPE
ARANA
Mulderslaan 17
3905 GA Veenendaal
Netherlands
Tel: 00-31-318-589461
info@arana.nl
ARTISAN ROUTE
14 Dingleton Dr.
Melrose Scottish Border
TD6 9JL UK
Tel: +44(0) 1896 823 765
clivegweber@btinternet.com
BEDFORD KNITWEAR
Rostockerstrasse 17
10533 Berlin-Germany
+49 (0) 30 2009 7772
info@bedfordknitwear.com
GALERIE-MAMOO
Graefestrasse 9
D-10967 Berlin| KREUZBERG
Germany
Tel: +49-30 288 55 605
utegumz@googlemail.com
JAPAN
FUTURE DESIGN Co. Ltd.
7-22-17 Nishi-Gotanda Shinagawa-ku Tokio
Japan
Tel: 004 857 5030
futuredesign77@hotmail.com
IMAGE
239-2 Tamaue-Cho
Nakagyo-fu Kyoto-Shi
Kyoto- ku Japan
Tel: 075-212-5127
image@aurora.ocn.ne.jp
ROKKO IMPORTS, LTD
2 13 6 Honjocho
Higashinada-Ku
Kobe-Shi, Hyogo-ken 6580012 Japan
Tel: +81-78-431-9936
rokkoimp@kh.rim.or.jp
SOUTH AMERICA
GALERIA LATINA
Juan Leon Mera No. 23-69
170524 Quito Ecuador
Tel: 593-2-222-1098
info@galerialatina.com
MISTURA
Calle Sagarnaga N-163
La Paz Bolivia
Tel: 591-22311910
tcampero@aol.com
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ANDEAN SOFTWARE
116B Sutton Place
Taos Ski Valley NM 87525
Tel: 575-776-2508
andreaheckman333@gmail.com
ANDEAN SOFTWARE
131 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte
Taos NM 87571
Tel: 575-758-8605
Millma is a luxury knitwear and textile manufacturer and design brand. Founded in 1985 in La Paz, Bolivia, Millma’s identity is deeply connected to the Andes, with a singular dedication to excellence in design, color, attention to detail, and finishing. With its strong technical foundation, and drawing on its rich human resources and history, the company still makes clothing the old school way, stitch by stitch, seam by seam. Through the use of the finest natural fibres indigenous to the Andean region and the craftsmanship of local artisan tradition, we have been able to create sophisticated handcrafted garments, unique in a world of mass-production.
Millma co-founders Arthur Tracht and Laurie Adelson met in La Paz in 1976 while independently researching indigenous Bolivian textiles. At the time, Ms. Adelson was collecting costumes and writing a catalogue for an exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, California. The show opened in October 1978 in conjunction with the publication, Textile Traditions of Highland Bolivia. Mr. Tracht has a B.A from Temple University in Latin American History.
In 1983, they co-authored the book Aymara Weavings: Ceremonial Textiles of Colonial and 19th Century Bolivia in conjunction with an inaugural show at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. Through this love and appreciation of textiles and, and a strong knowledge of artisan craftsmanship, Laurie and Arthur founded Millma.
