Mary Frame on Four-Cornered Hats
Mary Frame’s textile explorations have ranged from early Paracas textiles to contemporary Taquile culture, and everything in between. Here, she
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Mary Frame’s textile explorations have ranged from early Paracas textiles to contemporary Taquile culture, and everything in between. Here, she
Many of us in the ATA community had the privilege of meeting Guadalupe Alvarez de Callañaupa, weaver, community leader, mother
Last year was one of continued learning and development for the Andean weavers who were hit hard by the pandemic
Coca is not cocaine. To equate the coca leaf with the raw alkaloid cocaine is as misguided as suggesting that
The recent ATA TextileTalk on “The Andean Textile Tradition of Four-Selvaged Cloth” by Elena Phipps, PhD, highlights one of the amazing technical
While the coronavirus has prevented us from hosting our tours to Peru and Bolivia this year, we’ve been keeping up
To paraphase Charles Dickens, “It was the worst of times, it was the best of people.” This year has brought
I have not totally absorbed or believed that David VanBuskirk is gone, but sadly I have to accept the truth.
You can meet the weavers, dyers, knitters, and spinners of the Peruvian Highlands without leaving home. The ATA educational program
During Tinkuy 2017, twenty weavers from the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC) participated in a workshop on the Paracas
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