The set of rights belonging to a group or determinate lineage to use certain textile designs, colours and compositions. These rights are linked to the members of the group being born in a particular territory.
In the conttext of textiles, rights to make textiles, to carry out the processes of textile elaboration, and to guarantee the continuity of this activity from generation to generation.
In the context of textiles, during the last decade appeal has been made to recognise human rights in instances of abuse (even slavery) in working conditions in the textile industry, which includes child labour, in countries such as Thailand, China and some of the Central American countries. On the other hand, as far as traditional textiles are concerned, appeal has been made to the combined framework of human rights as collective rights to defend the rights of indigenous peoples and their lands in order to obtain the resources needed to make their own clothing and goods.
Developments, for instance in textile production and elaboration, in a particular conjuncture of a society or culture. These developments in a society at a particular time can be compared with those of another period.
Technical advance in textiles which includes greater complexity in structures and techniques in elaborating textiles, whether by the use of more warp threads or the use of techniques of greater complexity, for example the use of selected or reselected techniques.
Technical advance in textiles which includes especially those developments in the construction and complexity of the loom, its equipment and instruments, and so the improvements in the elaboration of woven cloth that are developed over time.
Period where regional societies were in constant conflict over local resources. Large scale defensive settlements were built in the hills. There is regional interaction by means of caravans of llamas.
Process whereby crude animal fibres and wools are cleaned and made finer as wools for textile production, by combing the fleeces with instruments set aside for the purpose.
Management of teaching-learning and practical experience of particular operations and activities, especially manual ones, in the elaboration of textiles.
Skill and mastery acquired by practical teaching-learning and experience in particular operations and activities, especially manual ones, in the making of textiles.
Half-crown, open to the back: there are those with inlay of different metals, and those made with feathers, the latter belonging to the fishermen of the Arica coast after the collapse of the Wari and Tiwanaku empires.
The last part of the sequence of textile production, when the textile is distributed as a product in society and the characteristic forms of this distribution, either as gifts between relatives and allies, or as products of exchange, purchase and sale, etc.
Link between textile use and the relations of power in a society, especially in expressing the power and status of the wearer or group of wearers (religious or political authorities, member of the nobility or a certain lineage) by the iconographic composition, and above all by the use of high status designs.
Warp-faced rectilinear fabric, characterised by its highly polished and detailed designs, and the attention given in general form to the clear form of both sides of the fabric. It is made on a loom in simple or complex structures, without the application of the usual techniques of selection and count by selection and re-selection.
Use of textiles to document the knowledge of a particular society or culture, especially in relation to the sphere of farming production, through the use of certain colours and figures, and the scale of this use in the iconographic composition of the textile.
Use of textiles to document the qualititive knowledge of a particular society or culture, especially in relation to the sphere of farming production, through the use of certain colours and figures, and the scale of this use in the iconographic composition of the textile.
Use of textiles to document the quantitive knowledge of a particular society or culture, especially in relation to the sphere of farming production, trhough the use of certain colours and figures, and the scale of this use in the iconographic composition of the textile.
The set of documents that include projects, plans, research, even the quotations in specialised bibliography, and which contribute to grant the cultural object scientific importance and importance as heritage at the global level.
Origin of identifiable antecedents in textual, visual-graphic, recorded or audiovisual records that grant individual or collective authority to a broadcast, and that can be consulted without needing to have the physical presence of their author.
Process through which access to a natural resource for textile production is guaranteed over time, in this case domesticating previously wild wool-producing animals.
Use of textiles in presenting gifts or presents to establish relations of friendship or other form of alliance between families (whether between relations or political relations), and between social groups.
Refers to the set of practices connected to the presentation of textiles as gifts between different relations at different times of life: birth, first haircut, adolescence, marriage, assumption of responsibilities, and at death.