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 ...
Catalog of exhibition held at the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco, Peru. Indians of South America--Social life and customs ...
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 ...
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 24: Director General of Al-Sadu Society Sheikha Bibi Al-Duaij affirmed that ‘Bait Al-Sadu’ (House of Al-Sadu) is committed to being an open platform for communication between various ...
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 ...