Traditional Textile Center of Cusco
Nonprofit weaving workshop where Andean artisans keep ancestral textile symbolism and ritual alive.
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This guide to the Traditional Textile Center of Cusco starts with the chakana, a stepped cross woven into the cloth in front of you, and the three worlds Andean weavers say it represents. In 2006, weavers from this center traveled to a museum in Arequipa to study and reproduce the garments of Juanita, a girl sacrificed on a mountain summit roughly five centuries ago and preserved in ice, reviving a looping technique nobody alive had used in generations. It follows what that project stirred up among the weavers, and what caution still looks like in this workshop today.
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