CUSCO, Peru (CNN) -- The artistic quality of Peruvian Andes textiles has been a source of awe for centuries. Intricate patterns and vibrant natural colors have made the pieces collector's items since ...
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 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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