All those textiles that form part of the systems of knowledge of the Andean region passed down from one generation to another outside of conventional reading and writing, e.g. in terms of the knowledge of production, in predicting the weather, etc that one can see in their figures.
Range of customs of presenting textile gifts between relatives in family rites of passage; at birth, the first haircut, rites of childhood and adolescence, marriage, housebuilding, rituals associated with taking on responsibilities amongst older people, and the use of textiles associated with illness and death.
Set of textiles and textile elements with specific characteristics used in curing rituals. Some examples are the threads spun to the left that are used as protection from illnesses, or the treads made of strands of black and white that are snapped over a patient to 'let a tranca go'.
Use of textiles with determinate characteristics in their colours and motifs in rituals to ensure production of crops and animals, and the cultural ideas associated with them.
Set of textiles with specific characteristics especially in the use of the colour black and skull designs used in rituals to defend territorial limits.
Use of textiles to document the annual increase in herds in pastoral production, especially the use of stripes of different widths, as well as the use of threads of different colours and textures in the case of quipus.
Use of textiles to document the yearly amount of agricultural production, especially through the use of stripes of different widths and the scale of specific figures, in addition to the use of threads of different colours and textures in the case of quipus.
Set of textiles with specific characteristics in their composition and colour used for commensal events, e.g. as the base for presenting food that will be shared at Aymara festivals (aphthapi).
Set of textiles with specific characteristics, e.g. the use of natural colours and figures of animals, meadows, places of pasturage and herding instruments, used in pastoral rituals.
Set of textiles with specific characteristics woven to this day as offerings to be incorporated into the bundles that are kept under the figures of saints, in churches.
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.
