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Natural dyes can be made from a variety of plants and even animals: q’olle (flowers), molle (leaves), tayaka (leaves), chiqchi (root), qaqa sunkha (lichen), chillka (leaves), cochinilla (cochineal, a form of insect), mot’e mot’e (fruit), chaphi…

A weaver joints the pieces of the textile and completes the textile’s borders.

Golon is a twill tapestry technique done with multiple heddles (a cord or wire used to separate warp threads) for raising the warps.

This image of the Inka ruler symbolizes the Inka’s power and authority.

The sun, and the principal god of the Incas, is venerated even today in many rituals. Weavers design according to their perception and to the technique or skills that weaving this design permits them to create (Callañaupa Alvarez 2007). In…

Young girls are first exposed to these ideas in childhood, when they begin making jakimas (narrow woven ribbons)

Sometimes called “intermesh,” this technique produces a very sturdy, thick fabric.

Design signifies a field or furrows. A furrow is a trench created by using a plow. Creating a furrow prepares the ground for planting or irrigating.

Jautay rosas means handful of roses.

This is a kind of women’s jacket made from plain weave wool fabric. The jacket is adorned with beads, buttons, embroidery, and ribbons (Callañaupa Alvarez 2015). According to Vidal de Milla (2000), in the Cusco region these textiles traditionally…