weaving
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Technology
An Inca Fiber, Fique, with a Marvelous Future
I was reading a poem this week written by David Knowlton, entitled “Cloth”. As good poems do, it caused me…
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Archeology
Braiding Interlaces and Tethers a Bridge Between Worlds
It is a Peruvian Braided Garment … but It Was Found with a Mummy Mummies of the World, the traveling…
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Timoteo Ccarita, a Leader of Weavers
Don Timoteo is a master weaver, a native Quechua speaker and a man of great dignity. I meet Don Timoteo…
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Customs
The People of Chinchero Keep Inca Weaving Alive
Chinchero is a very picturesque and welcoming town. Surrounded by fertile fields, it is considered the town of the rainbow.…
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Travel
A Visit to the Weaving Community of Huilloc
A dirt road takes us up mountain from the town of Ollantaytambo. In an hour it brings us to the…
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The Living Museum Awanakancha Promotes Cuzco’s Traditional Weaving Art
Andean women weave traditionally and in that is so much meaning. By weaving they create a world and social life.…
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Food & Drinks
Cactus Pear and Cochineal, Red to Eat and Red to Wear
As we know according to the seasons and feasts a different variety of fruit presents itself in Cuzco. Each of…
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Food & Drinks
The Fox, The Goose, and The Color Red
Up in the mountains dressed in white, where the beautiful lakes are born, some green, some black, and others blue…
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Art
Color and Beauty in Cuzco’s Hand Woven Lliqllas,
There are many different ways of artistic expression in the City of Cuzco as well as ways of making your…
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