Blog - Andean Textile Arts

Textile tours of all kinds can make a weaver out of you. It certainly did for Andean Textile Arts (ATA)

Last month I spent a week in Madrid at COP25, the twenty-fifth conference of the parties who signed on to

Two years ago, I left my country, Peru, to do a MFA in Fiber and Material Studies at the School

I have not totally absorbed or believed that David VanBuskirk is gone, but sadly I have to accept the truth.

Bolivia has a rich Andean textile tradition, borne of its history as the center of the ancient Tiwanaku empire and

Imagine an entire day where you could spin, weave, dance, sing, and play—all devoted to sharing your traditions and bonding

Scaffold weaving, also known as discontinuous warp, or ticlla in the Quechua language, is a remarkably complex and time-consuming ancient

Andean Textile Arts (ATA) runs 100% on the efforts of dedicated volunteers—individuals like Stefanie Berganini, who was the driving force

Can you imagine recreating a textile technique of the Nazca people who lived on the southern coast of Peru from

An amazing exhibit of work by the Andean weavers of the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC) was recently

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