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.
Set of forms of transaction in which textiles are exchanged or bartered for other products, or in which the textile enters as part of the commercial cycle of buying and selling.
Textile style of the Tiwanaku culture during the Middle Horizon. Three sub-styles have been defined: Tapestry Tiwanaku, Warp faced Tiwanaku aand Bordered Tiwanaku (see Oakland 1986). It uses bright colours and a distinctive iconography and both stripes and design bands. It reproduces State ideology.
Tiwanaku textile style woven in the provinces of the State which incorporates local elements and uses colours which are not as bright. It belongs to the Middle Horizon.
Women's hat, with a narrow brim and high crown, the result of the influence of the Italian "Borsalino" hat and generally worn as part of their apparel by women who wear skirts.
Hat associated more with men, with a narrow brim and high crown, resulting from the influence of the Italian 'Borsalino' hat, made out of fine cloth, generally from light colours.