Mouth Masks and Severed Heads
One of ATA’s Andean Textile Talks last year explored a fragmentary Nazca cloth from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Even
Weaving through the Andes:
25th Anniversary Tour in the Peruvian Highlands
Oct 21-November 2
Explore Machu Picchu and other archeological sites, visit four weaving communities accompanied by legendary Quechua master weaver Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez, take part in a natural dye class, and enjoy a private museum tour!
Textile Traditions of the Peruvian Highlands is an inspiring virtual visit with the Andean weavers, spinners, knitters, and dyers of the Peruvian Highlands. Designed for fiber guilds, schools, and other groups, it is an opportunity to “travel” to this part of the world and be exposed to the area’s unique traditional textile arts and cultures.
One of ATA’s Andean Textile Talks last year explored a fragmentary Nazca cloth from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Even
In 1997, when the young Nilda Callañaupa dreamed of a center dedicated to the traditional textiles of Cusco, Peru, she
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