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
BEFORE CONSERVATION AFTER CONSERVATION These two figures, known popularly as “Chancay dolls,” are not ancient objects but 20th century and contemporary figures made by Peruvian Mestizo (mixed Native and Spanish ancestry) artisans using scraps of ancient Chancay textiles. The Chancay were an Andean culture that flourished from 1000 to 1460 CE in … [Read more...] about “Chancay Dolls”: Researched and Conserved by Jonathan Kohlhorst and Sophie Grus