The Promise of Young Weavers
On Saturdays, the young weavers’ groups in the Sacred Valley get together at their weaving compound to continue to improve
On Saturdays, the young weavers’ groups in the Sacred Valley get together at their weaving compound to continue to improve
Vallegrande province in Bolivia is a meeting point between the country’s lowlands and highlands. Here, surrounded by rock paintings thousands
Our Andean Textiles Arts (ATA) tours to Peru are always special. For one thing, we travel with Nilda Callañaupa, the
In 2024, ATA donors funded a pilot project focused on school youth in and near the small village of Maragua,
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
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