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
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
A group of eighteen travelers from the U.S. and Canada recently visited Cusco and several weaving communities in Peru’s Sacred
Mary Frame’s textile explorations have ranged from early Paracas textiles to contemporary Taquile culture, and everything in between. Here, she
Imagine a group of sixteen Andean textile arts enthusiasts peering through magnifying glasses at pre-Columbian pieces displayed on fabric-covered tables.
Many of us in the ATA community had the privilege of meeting Guadalupe Alvarez de Callañaupa, weaver, community leader, mother
“My first trip to Peru was with my friend, an anthropologist, in 1980. It was then that I had my
I must confess that when ATA board member Jennifer Moore casually mentioned over breakfast in her Santa Fe kitchen that
David Paly’s breathtaking collection of ikat textiles began with a single Andean poncho and grew to be world-class. Visitors to
The memories and emotions of being swaddled in his grandmother’s aguayo and being carried on her back “imprinted” Aymar Ccopacatty
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