Book Description
Essays on the textiles and their historical background and iconography, followed by color plates.
Author : James W. Reid
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Indian textile fabrics
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Essays on the textiles and their historical background and iconography, followed by color plates.
Author : James W. Reid
Publisher :
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : José Antonio de Lavalle
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Indian art
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Author : Andrea M. Heckman
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826329349
The Quechua people of southern Peru are both agriculturalists and herders who maintain large herds of alpacas and llamas. But they are also weavers, and it is through weaving that their cultural traditions are passed down over the generations. Owing to the region's isolation, the textile symbols, forms of clothing, and technical processes remain strongly linked to the people's environment and their ancestors. Heckman's photographs convey the warmth and vitality of the Quechua people and illustrate how the land is intricately woven into their lives and their beliefs. Quechua weavers in the mountainous regions near Cuzco, Peru, produce certain textile forms and designs not found elsewhere in the Andes. Their textiles are a legacy of their Andean ancestors. Andrea Heckman has devoted more than twenty years to documenting and analyzing the ways Andean beliefs persist over time in visual symbols embedded in textiles and portrayed in rituals. Her primary focus is the area around the sacred peak of Ausangate, in southern Peru, some eighty-five miles southeast of the former Inca capital of Cuzco. The core of this book is an ethnographic account of the textiles and their place in daily life that considers how the form and content of Quechua patterns and designs pass stories down and preserve traditions as well as how the ritual use of textiles sustain a sense of community and a connection to the past. Heckman concludes by assessing the influences of the global economy on indigenous Quechua, who maintain their own worldview within the larger fabric of twentieth-century cultural values and hence have survived everything from Latin American militarism to a tidal wave of post-modern change.
Author : Raoul d'. Harcourt
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780486421728
This magnificently illustrated work offers a comprehensive view of the textiles and techniques of pre-Columbian Peru. An introduction discusses yarns, dyes, looms, and raw materials; the first of the two-part text examines weaves, and the second considers such nonwoven materials as braiding, felt, and embroidery.
Author : Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Featherwork
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Author : Helaine Silverman
Publisher : G. K. Hall
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
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Author : Heidi King
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300169795
This title provides an in-depth and authoritative review of feeatherworking traditions in ancient Peru. The book includes a discussion of important recent discoveries, considerations of iconography, and basic technical characteristics of feather works.
Author : Jane Feltham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Shire Publications
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
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Author : Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Textile fabrics
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