The indigenous peoples of the Andean region of South America are master textile makers, with an ancient history of creating textiles that spans millennia.  The Andeans developed an ingeniously simple but highly flexible, portable type of loom known as the backstrap loom, which allowed weavers to bring their work with them and to practice their techniques virtually … [Read more...] about 20th-century Andean Textiles: Researched by Alisha Heitz