Tag: weaving

A Woven Book of Knowledge

The author’s long involvement with members of the Q’ero community has provided unique opportunities for insight into their ideas about weaving, iconography, and spatial and temporal concepts. But A Woven Book of Knowledge is more than an ethnographic study. If the warp of the book is the academic rigor of anthropology and linguistics, the weft is Silverman’s love for the textiles themselves and for the Q’ero people. It is a result of a passion that has kept her in Cuzco for years, dedicating her career to the study of the local textile tradition.

AutoraGail P Silverman
Año2008
TipoBook
PaísPerú
EditorialUniversity of Utah Press
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ISBN9780874809091
APASilverman, G. P. (2008). A woven book of knowledge: Textile iconography of Cuzco, Peru. University of Utah Press.

Weaving Life. The Textile Collection of the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia, following the productive chain

When we started preparing this catalogue, little work has been done in Bolivia on the museological aspects of textiles from the Andean and Amazonian regions of the country, and still less in a contextualised sense, taking into account the social life of its regions. In the present volume, in coordination with the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore (Musef), in La Paz, we decided to remedy this situation by proposing a new focus towards the woven objects located in the museum deposits, centred on making these textiles within the productive chain of weaving, taking into account the social life of the weaving communities of practice in the region, and also the social life of textiles as both objects and subjects.

AutoraDenise Y. Arnold
Año2015
TipoLibro
PaísBolivia
EditorialMuseo Nacional de Etnografia y Folklore
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DOINA
APAArnold, D., Espejo, E., & Maidana, F. (2015). Weaving life. The textile collection of the Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia, following the productive chain. Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore

Woven techniques and social interactions in the South Central Andes: ladder designs and the visualization of productive output

We examine the relations between weaving techniques and the social domain of knowledge and documentation, as expressed through the so-called ‘ladder’ techniques, in English terminology. These ladder techniques are characterised by their rows of contrasting colours in the simple form, or alternatively by their intercalated chequered patterns in the multiple form. Commonly they are used today to begin and end a textile design band, but they sometimes constitute whole bands. These ladder techniques have been mentioned in passing by a number of scholars, usually in the context of striped farming bags, both ethnographic and archaeological.

AutoraDenise Y. Arnold
Año2014
TipoCapítulo de libro
PaísBolivia
EditorialArchetype Publications
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ISBN9781909492080
APAEspejo, E., & Arnold, D. Y. (2014). “Woven techniques and social interactions in the South Central Andes: ladder designs and the visualisation of productive output.” In: Textiles, technical practice, and power in the Andes, 303-326.

Technical competence in weaving as a means of distinction among young Macha women from Tumaykuri, Northern Potosí, Bolivia

In this chapter I focus on the value attributed by the Macha of Tumaykuri (Northern Potosí, Bolivia) to the acquisition by young women of technical competence in weaving. I propose a practice-orientated approach and argue that the symbolic is located in the making of objects, and that the analysis of textile designs cannot be divorced either from weaving technologies and techniques, or from the lives of weavers. I argue that technical competence in weaving is at the heart of the construction of a female-gendered aesthetic subject, is a motor of creativity and innovation, and is a means of distinction among marriageable young women.

AutoraCassandra Torrico
Año2014
TipoCapítulo de libro
PaísBolivia
EditorialHawansuyo, Poéticas indigenas y originarias
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APATorrico, C. (2014). Technical competence in weaving as a means of distinction among young Macha women from Tomaycuri, Northern Potosí, Bolivia. En: Arnold, DY, Dransart, P. (eds.). Textiles, Technical Practice and Power in the Andes. London: Archetype Publications, 195–215.

Making textiles into persons: Gestural sequences and relationality in communities of weaving practice of the South Central Andes

The complex social and technical dimensions of weaving in contemporary Andean communities of practice are examined to suggest how these might have evolved so that populations could coordinate and make sense of their daily tasks in an emerging biocultural space. Rejecting former constructivist epistemological biases in operational studies of working practice, the article explores an alternative approach where technical practice is given meaning through ways of being in the world, and where common sense-making derives from the idea that textiles are living beings.

AutoraDenise Y. Arnold
Año2018
TipoArtículo Académico
PaísBolivia
EditorialJournal of Material Culture
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DOI10.1177/1359183517750007
APAArnold, D. Y. (2018). Making textiles into persons: Gestural sequences and relationality in communities of weaving practice of the South Central Andes. Journal of Material Culture, 23 (2), 239-260.

Woven Stories: Andean Textiles and Rituals

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.

AutoraAndrea M. Heckman, Andrea N. Heckman
Año2003
TipoLibro
PaísPerú
EditorialUniversity of New Mexico Press
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ISBN0826329349
APAHeckman, A. M., & Heckman, A. N. (2003). Woven stories: Andean textiles and rituals. University of New Mexico Press.