Wilfredo Alejandro Arriagada Sepúlveda works with his mother Alba as award-winning weavers from El Arte del Crin, a unique handwork cooperative originating in the small town of Rari Chile where Alba was born. The collective focuses on a very specialized art form which utilizes hand-dyed and hand-loomed horsehair to make intricately-woven miniature baskets, flowers and figurines in the shape of mythologized characters.

According to popular legend, this craft began over two hundred years ago when two young girls of Rari began to weave different shapes from poplar roots found along a stream and sell them to raise money for their families. Over time, the poplar root was depleted and the community began using horsehair imported from Mexico. The tradition continues to provide economic stability for the member families of Rari.