The history of textiles in Peru started 5,000 years ago when pre-Inca and Inca civilization weavers mastered natural cotton and alpaca fibers. Now, these ancestral techniques, combined with modern ...
The Sacred Valley, drained by the Urubamba River, is home to rich, fertile soil that has made it a cradle of Peruvian agriculture for centuries. Many vegetables we now enjoy originated in Peru, where ...
Three local Peruvian female weavers creating colourful alpaca wool on the ground in the Sacred Valley. Obviously, you can’t travel to Peru right now, but if you’re itching to buy some of the country’s ...
At the closure of the Binational Textile Art Gathering for women artisans from Yucatán (Mexico), Cajamarca, Ayacucho, and Lima (Peru), organized by UNESCO, embroiderers and textile creators from ...
We talked to Peruvian-based label Mozh Mozh about textiles, inspiration, and preserving your culture
Fashion is a reflection of our culture. And very often it’s also a reflection of our upbringing and our belief system, as well. This rings true for Mozhdeh Matin, founder of Mozh Mozh, a ...
Artisans from Mexico and Peru have started a series of meetings to exchange knowledge, techniques, and strategies. The goal is to strengthen the appreciation of textile art and embroidery as a living ...
Here's something you don't see every day in Washington, D.C. Standing just a couple of blocks from the U.S. Capitol, a group of Peruvian highlanders, draped in handwoven cloths and ponchos in all the ...
As the East Coast temperatures begin to drop, IT staffers want nothing more than to sip hot tea by a roaring fire and bundle up with warm wool sweaters and scarves. Our yearning for yarn sparked an ...
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