INCREDIBLE ANDEAN WEAVING TECHNIQUES
Today is
Wednesday, so it’s time for the Wordless Wednesday post! This time I’m providing
additional information to my photo entry, because I find it so astonishing.
I have been
researching about Andean textiles in general, that is, the textiles produced by
the pre-Hispanic inhabitants of the Andes region that crosses the modern
countries of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile (northern area) and Argentine
(northern area).
I have
discovered some fantastic information which I hope to include in future posts.
In the meantime, I’m presenting a photo of a priceless example of weaving from
the Wari people of Peru circa 750 – 950 AD.
It seems
that this tunic combines cotton material with camelid wools, and that the
colors are obtained by tie-dying the segments of cloth, which are then woven
into the whole.
The tunic
is on view at the Textile Museum, Washington DC.
So, who
invented patchwork?
WARI TUNIC PERU
Source: N/A,
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons
SPANISH
VERSION
(This blog
is bilingual)
Esta es mi participación en el post seminal de “Miércoles
sin Palabras”, un desafío en que se privilegia lo visual por sobre la palabra.
Estoy investigando sobre los textiles de las culturas andinas
pre-Hispánicas, y ¡he descubierto aspectos realmente increíbles! ¡Qué legado
nos han dejado!
Esta maravilla es una túnica que utiliza tela de algodón y
lana de los camélidos. Las tinturas usadas son espectaculares. ¡Disfruten!
© 2012 joanveronica
(Joan Robertson)
I will be
very happy to receive your comments! Just click the word “comments” lower down.
Yes! And I still have a version of a textile I made for a 7th grade research project in 1993. Yes, 1993. I took about a million extra hours to make this textile, but even then I was fascinated by the designs on the textiles. Awesome photo! (And yes, as soon as your link was entered, I got an email message - you don't have to worry if you don't see it - it will show up within a few minutes.) Tweeted this. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Cyndi, thanks for taking the time to comment! I know you are very busy! Isn't this particular photo spectacular! See you soon!
DeleteHow very cool... such a piece of art!
ReplyDeleteHi Stacy, nice to have you visit! I quite agree, this is a fantastic piece of art! I knew about the Andean textiles, but hadn't really looked! I'm amazed! See you soon!
DeleteJoan, this is beautiful and my husband studied art in college and I remember going to quite a few museums back in the day. I remember seeing something similar to this and remarking about wonderful detail. Thanks for sharing and truly is an amazing piece of artwork!!
ReplyDeleteHi Janine, I'm happy to have your visit and your comment! I do agree about this art work, so much so that I hope to have a much longer post for FTSF with a more complete focus of this kind of topic. They were really fantastic textile workers! And there doesn't seem to have been much outside influence! So let's enjoy, and I'll see you soon!
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