About

The relation between a textile and a text is not just etymological and conceptual, it is historical too. In indigenous American culture, particularly in the Andes region, pieces of pottery and textiles were communicative objects par excellence; an indivisible unity between the aesthetic and the function obtained in them. The textile was the prime medium for manifesting ideas, given the usefulness of the products and the expressive potential of their medium. The color, the form of the spinning of the fibers, and the way in which warp and weft relate to the scheme in the fabric, form, in this …