La Laborteca de Opera, S.L.

When you think about your business, what are you most proud of?

The atmosphere that is created in it, it is not a normal shop, it is the living room of a house for friends who get together. When people come into our space they feel like doing something, knitting, sewing, embroidering, painting. Until you come to our workshops you dont know what these walls hide and if they could talk you wouldnt believe it.

What is the history of your commerce?

Well, this business was opened by two friends who were already in their forties, and having dedicated ourselves to different things and seeing that we were not going to recycle ourselves in the world of work, we decided to go into entrepreneurship and we have been here for 9 years now.

What is your professional experience?

Well, the best thing about this job is the satisfaction of doing a job that is so pleasant for so many people, they feel happy to be here, they wouldnt change their weekly workshop hours for anything, they are sacred and it has also allowed us and allows us to meet people all the time and our dealings with them are very personal.

How has covid 19 affected your business?

Well, it is affected by the capacity we have to apply, as it is 50% of what we had. Sales have also been affected as people are not passing through the streets.

What services and products does your business provide?

We offer weekly two-hour workshops one day a week in Knitting, Crochet, Embroidery, Sewing, Watercolour and Patchwork.
We also sell precious wool and yarns for knitting, as well as haberdashery materials such as needles, threads, etc.