The Living Museum Awanakancha Promotes Cuzco’s Traditional Weaving Art
By Fidelus Coraza Morveli (translated by David Knowlton)
Andean women weave traditionally and in that is so much meaning. By weaving they create a world and social life. Tourists may be attracted to their weavings because of the unusual tightness of the weave and the colors but they miss the rich meanings in weaving and especially the way, like a web, weaving provides the warp and woof of life. This is true, unless the look more deeply. Read the rest of this entry

