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 ...
Known traditionally for their folksy appeal, Peruvian textiles created high in the Andes mountains are being re-invented for the 21st Century. By Dominic Lutyens. With their strong, saturated colours ...
Olga de Amaral, “Woven Gridded Wall #66" (Muro tejido cuadriculado #66) (1970), wool and horsehair, 119 x 70 x 20 inches (all photos Julie Smith Schneider/Hyperallergic) A current of cross-cultural, ...
The art of making captivating Peruvian textiles has traditionally been anonymous work. But at 75, Sara Flores is making a name for herself with hypnotic abstractions Flores holds up leaves from the ...
Textile Hive, which preserves the late Andrea Aranow’s influential fashion designs and international sewing material collections, is exhibiting Aranow’s counterculture garments worn by 1960s’ musical ...
Fashion as we all know is glamorous and extravagant, frivolous and ephemeral. But it's also a great way to grasp how a society thinks about itself. Looking at clothes is a key part of any serious ...
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 ...
Known traditionally for their folksy appeal, Peruvian textiles created high in the Andes mountains are being re-invented for the 21st Century. By Dominic Lutyens. With their strong, saturated colours ...
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