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<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Per\u00fa is a country of weavers and history is written in its textiles. The transmission of culture has always been done through fabrics, showing images of deities, priests, and curacas with divine attributes, figures of legendary heroes, representations of the cosmos in which we find the sun, the stars, constellations, and fantastic animals.<\/p>\n
The techniques employed corresponded to weaving done on a loom, interlaced, woven with needles, braided, knotted, and embroidered. In pre-Hispanic times, Peruvians managed to develop complex techniques that were even superior to those used by the Europeans of the time.<\/p>\n
The main places where important remains of pre-Hispanic textiles have been found are on the central and southern coast of Peru: Ica, Nazca, Paracas, Cajamarquilla, Ancon, Chancay, and Pachacamac. To a lesser extent, textiles from the Huari Culture have been found, and a strong influence of this culture and the Tiahuanaco element that composes it is observed in Inca textiles.<\/p>\n
The materials used in the textiles were agave, brown and white cotton, alpaca, llama, and vicu\u00f1a fibers, and eventually human hair, bat hair, gold and silver threads, and feathers. Hand-spun yarn, whether single or two-ply, became so fine that 211,600 meters per 500 grams were obtained in single-ply thread and 168,250 meters in two-ply threads. This enormous development that textile technology had in Ancient Peru reached the Inca era.<\/p>\n
Without a doubt, the oldest artisanal activity in Peru is textile: the first fabrics made of vegetable fiber date back to 5800 BC, coming from the Guitarrero cave in Ancash, and there is archaeological evidence that alpaca fiber was already being used in 3000 BC. The amazing fineness and complexity of pre-Columbian textiles have led to them being found in many museums around the world, in addition to being part of private collections and local and foreign publications.<\/p>\n
And besides its utilitarian purpose, weaving in pre-Hispanic societies had multiple purposes; it served as a symbol of status, as an element for performing diverse rituals in vital, funerary, propitiatory, and worship cycles. Thanks to the chroniclers who wrote in the first decades of the Colony, we know that the Inca possessed enormous warehouses of textiles in various places in the territory, textiles that he used as a tool for his policy of conquest, gifting them to those he wanted to win over to his domains or as a gift for high officials of the Inca empire.\nIt was possibly also used as an instrument of exchange, since it has been recorded that the first colonizers encountered groups of the Chincha culture sailing the Pacific on rafts loaded with textiles, which very possibly were exchanged for other products.<\/p>\n
The Chinchas, those great pre-Hispanic merchants, came to have ten thousand rafts!<\/p>\n
Source: Per\u00fa, country of Artisans, Mar\u00eda del Carmen de la Fuente<\/p>\n
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