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sitio de acabar
Place where textiles are or in the archaeological or historical past. Have been finished.
sitio de acopio
Place where in the historical or archaeological past some raw material in this case intended for the production or circulation of textiles is or has been gathered or is now gathered.
sitio de comercialización
Place where in the present or historical past some element associated with textile production or circulation is or has been marketed.
sitio de compra de materiales
Place where the raw material for textile production is purchased.
sitio de depósito de textiles
Place where in the archaeological or historical past textiles, or some element associated with textile production or circulation, have been deposited or are now deposited.
sitio de embalaje
Place where in the archaeological or historical past textiles or some element associated with textile production or circulation have been baled or packed or are now.
sitio de esquila
Place where in the archaeological or historical past animals (aemelids, sheep, goats) are or have been sheared to obtain their wool or hair. They tend to be flat or dry places.
sitio de exportación
Place from which textiles are exported.
sitio de exposición de textiles
Place where textiles are exhibited, for example, museum rooms or halls.
sitio de hilar
Place where in the archaeological or historical past wool or hair from wool-bearing animals (camelids, sheep, goats) intended for textile production has been spun or is now.
sitio de intercambio
Place where in the archaeological or historical past there has been exchange centred in part on textile items or on obtaining their raw material, or is carried out now.
sitio de investigación textil
Place where research into or studies on textiles takes place.
sitio de obtención de materia prima
Place where raw material is obtained, in this case for textile production.
sitio de producción textil
Place where currently or in the archaeological or historical past textiles are or have ben produced.
sitio de recojo textil
Place from which textiles have been collected, e.g. an archaeological site which is the source of sets of textiles from different periods of time.
sitio de selección de fibra
Place where in the archaeological or historical past wool or hair from wool-bearing animals (camelids, sheep, goats) intended for textile production has been selected or is being selected now.
sitio de tejer
Place where in the archaeological or historical past weaving has been practiced.
sitio de tintóreo
Place where in the archaeological or historical past dyeing of fibres meant for textile production has been practiced or is done so now.
sitio de venta
Place where textiles are sold.
siyan awayu
Type of ahuayo with meander designs.
sobrecalza
Men's garment like gaiters or leggings worn to cover the leg up to the knee, the design varies according to region and situation.
sobrecama
Bed linen, made out of piece of cloth, woven in warp face or tapestry, and used to cover the bed on top of the blankets.
sobremesa
In the Colonial period, table linen, made out of a narrow and elongated woven cloth, of smaller dimensions than the table which is placed on the central part of the table as decoration.
Socialización del textil
The last part in the chain of textile production, when the cloth as product but also as social practice is spread through society, by forms of learning, norms of its working according to gender and age and ways of using or wearing, distributing and valuing it.
soga
Rope made out of plant or animal fibre, and in the latter case coming in three sizes: large, medium, small; and depending on its thickness, thick and thin, having different functions: the thin ropes used to set up the horizontal loom in weaving.
soguilla
Thin rope made of camelid hair used to secure the fastener frame of the loom (the poles in teh case of the horizontal loom) to the floor or to a solid object, and in the case of the waist loom to the weaver's waist at one end and to a solid frame (tree or pole) at the other.
soguilla para sujetar el animal
Thin rope used to tie the feet of an animal and so hold it down for shearing.
sombrero
Item of clothing, at first worn by men, made of a crown and brim, worn generally to protect the head from the sun.
sombrero de ala ancha
Men's hat, made with a wide brim.
sombrero de ala angosta
Hat made with a narrow brim and high crown, result of the influence of the Italian 'Borsalino' hat, it has a different shape and ornaments in each region.