Item of men's clothing, narrower than the conventional waist belt made in warp faced technique, with checker board designs and worn round the hand to give more power to the fist in fights or confrontations.
Belt made of two main parts, each a belt in itself worn on the front and back part of the waist and joined by another section that brings the two together.
Pre-Colombian item of clothing characterised by its length, which can reach 10 m in some cases allowing it to wrap round mummies of the dead a number of times. Nowadays, long belts of some 7 m are used to decorate altars and arches during festivals and also to wrap round individuals several times as clothing.
Rectangular bag with the greatest width in the direction of the warp, made in a single piece of warp faced cloth, folded longitudinally and closed at its sides and upper part, with a central opening in the latter, so that it can be used to contain things: it is attached to the waist by two cords, made of plaited or braided cords, stitched at both ends, and is worn along with a waistband.
Women's garment of the pre-colonial period, like a skirt, made on a base of plant fibres and later from thick threads of camellid fibre joined together by a cord that ties it to the waist.
Category of weave in which the spacing of the weft threads predominates over the warp threads, to the point of hiding them. With weft faced techniques in the selection of the weft threads, often with the use of discontinuous wefts to create different areas of colour, texture and figures, it has been possible to develop very fine, high prestige textiles with a very clear iconography. In the Inka period, larger weft faced pieces were made on vertical looms, in which the tension of the warp was controlled with weights.
Category of weave, in which the spacing of the warp threads predominates over the weft threads, to the point of hiding them. With warp faced techniques, centred on the selection of warp threads in different layers to create the figures, it has been possible to create the most complex textiles in the Andes, perhaps in the world.
Category of weave in which the spacing of the warp threads over those of the weft, in which a certain fineness is achieved which could be called qumpi.
Woven hat made with a variant of the 'needle technique' in basketry, in the form of a truncated cone, made by means of a weft that gradually wraps a structure of thicker threads as loops that gradually join each other.
Spongy fibre derived from the flower of the cotton plant. It usually produces threads that are opaque and matt in the light, by comparison with animal hair which is shiny.
Very fine and spongy hair produced by shearing camelids, either from a live animal or from a hide. It usually produces threads that are shiny in the light, by comparison with cotton fibre which is usually opaque and matt.
Fibre or hair that is produced by shearing hybrid animals, for example crosses between wild camelids and domesticated ones, either from a live animal or from a hide.
Sub-class of geometrical figurative motifs, mainly elaborated through even technique in warp faced textiles. It covers different motifs, such as small chain or necklace, general stepped motif, Greek, linear Z motif and seed-eye, amongst others.
Typology of motif that includes recognisable images that belong to the known world. It includes anthropomorphs, zoomorphs, work instruments, etc; and their sub-classes. The figurative motifs are usually elaborated in techniques of even counting.
Sub-class of a set of motifs that configure a composition in which are shown scenes of historical commemoration, political incorporation, mythically based, narrative, a religious figure, or scenes of travel, festivals, production and ritual.
Subclass of figurative type motif that in turn is sub-divided into different classes (plant, anthropomorphic, feline, ornithomorphic). It includes different figurative motifs, identified in an isolated manner in design bands, generally elaborated on warp faced cloth through an even counted technique.
Sub-class of figurative motifs, elaborated through even technique in warp faced cloth. It can be a linear or non-linear figure. Includes different motifs, such as small chain, general stepped, Greek, linear Z motif, seed-eye, amongst others.
Process by which dye chemicals are fixed to material (fibre, thread, cloth) in the processes of dyeing, by adding fixing agents to the aqueous solution, to avoid the loss of colour caused by sunlight and use.
