The Fibershed Movement: Looking Back To Move Forward
Editors Note: If you’re hearing the term “fibershed” in textile conversations, you’re not alone. A growing number of farmers, fashion
Editors Note: If you’re hearing the term “fibershed” in textile conversations, you’re not alone. A growing number of farmers, fashion
Death in the Andes, written by celebrated Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, is on its surface a “whodunit,” set in
Renowned weaver and ATA board member Jennifer Moore fell in love with doubleweave soon after her first weaving class in
In January, we introduced you to Lourdes Sullca Gutieerez and Nery Condori Layme, two young weavers from the Peruvian highland
Looking back, would it have been possible to survive in the Andes without textiles, for warmth, for ritual, for celebration?
Cultural appropriation has been a particularly contentious topic in recent years, and a debate that tends to be very polarizing.
Cindy Weinstein’s first connection with Andean textiles was in her mid-twenties, when she was apprenticing with a tapestry weaver at
In 2020, ATA and the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC) completed interviews with several young weavers from communities
While the coronavirus has prevented us from hosting our tours to Peru and Bolivia this year, we’ve been keeping up
Every October, childhood memories are rekindled in the Bolivian Andes during Spinning Week, a competition honoring a life-long skill. The
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