Pacchanta's Maria Merma Gonzalo practices weaving techniques that have changed little in 500 years. Courtesy Andrea M. Heckman In the shadow of the 20,800-foot snow-clad peak of Ausangate in the ...
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 ...
Low, mud-brick houses speckle a lonely mountainside, like pale yellow dots atop a sea of coarse grass, each green blade ebbing and flowing in a stiff, spring breeze. Isolated at nine thousand feet ...
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