Link between textiles and the sphere of commensality, especially in the sense of using them to promote the production of a new generation of young or wawas, both human and animal or vegetable.
Idea that every ethnic group had its origins in a specific place (paqarina), where its proper class of attire could be found, with its characteristic composition and colour.
Links betweem the use of textiles and the relations of power in a society especially to express the power and status of the wearer or certain group of wearers (political or religious authorities, members of the nobility, or certain lineage) by the iconographic composition, and especially the use of high status colours: red, blue and yellows.
Array of textile uses in religious and patron festivals in a community or specific region, e.g. as offerings to the saints or gifts to those attending a festival.
Set of practices and customs, at the communal level, culturally defined whose institutional character structures and organises, in this case, textile activities in terms of style, rights of use, processes of teaching, learning etc.
Dye obtained from a wild tree originally from the mountains, whose bark and leaves were used as a natural yellow and brown dye for Pre-hispanic textiles.
Dye obtained from a bush of the indigoferous family, native to the region of tropical America, among others: its leaves are used as a natural blue dye for cotton fibres.
Dye obtained from a spiny bush 20 to 40 cm high, of compound leaves and yellow-orange flowers, from which a natural yellow colour is obtained for dyeing sheep wool or camelid fibre.
Dye obtained from a small insect, of pink colour, originally from Mexico and the Andean countries (Ecuador, Peru Bolivia y Chile); the pasty material obtained from it, called carmine, reduced to powder, is used as a natural red dye for dyeing different materials, especially camelid fibre.
Dye obtained from a small, aromatic bush, with fat oval leaves, characteristic of the region close to the transition scrublands of the high Andes; its colours are lilac-blue, from which a natural dye of different shades of cherry is obtained for dyeing sheep wool or camelid fibres.
Dye obtained from a branching, dark green bush, with tiny yellow flowers, native to the Altiplano; from its leaves is obtained a natural dye varying from green to yellow, used to dye sheep wool or camelid fibre.
