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Traditional Textiles of the Andes
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Pages: 157
Authors: Lynn Meisch
Categories: Crafts & Hobbies
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Thames & Hudson

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Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this book features 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century indigenous textiles woven by the Aymara
Textiles from the Andes
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Penelope Dransart
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Interlink Books

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In the world of the ancient Andes, textiles were often the most valuable commodity people possessed—far beyond gold and silver—and they were a major medium
Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes
Language: en
Pages: 534
Authors: Margot Blum Schevill
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-05 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Me
Textiles, Technical Practice, and Power in the Andes
Language: en
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Authors: Denise Y. Arnold
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"This book explores the importance of textiles in Andean societies, past and present, as vital indicators of regional ideas about technique and technology, and
The Colonial Andes
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Elena Phipps
Categories: Art, Spanish colonial
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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"This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of t