Peru, October 2024: Weaving Stories, Techniques, and Memories
A group of eighteen travelers from the U.S. and Canada recently visited Cusco and several weaving communities in Peru’s Sacred
A group of eighteen travelers from the U.S. and Canada recently visited Cusco and several weaving communities in Peru’s Sacred
I must confess that when ATA board member Jennifer Moore casually mentioned over breakfast in her Santa Fe kitchen that
On the third of November, the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco (CTTC) held a “Celebration of Ancestral Textile Arts”
Chinchero, Peru is a town in transition. It’s good news and bad news. Travel to Peru’s Sacred Valley has outgrown
During a recent ATA board visit to weaving communities in Peru, the village of Mahuaypampa was our first stop. Of
Three years later, my friends and I are still talking about our Andean Textile Arts (ATA) tour of Peru. In
From the moment our plane banked over the Andes in the final turn for the landing in Cusco, I was
Bolivia has a rich Andean textile tradition, borne of its history as the center of the ancient Tiwanaku empire and
For the first time, Andean Textile Arts is offering a Bolivian artisan tour. While the inaugural tour is already full
There is, of course, no shortage of travel options in many of our lives. From mini-getaways to grand tours in
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