Range of activities which includes the elaboration of records and files when textile objects arrive in the museum, the general processes of recording and cataloguing in repositories, and in parallel, the practices of conservation and restoration of textile objects, to improve their state and condition.
Media and practices used in exhibitions, such as the preparation and distribution of exhibition catalogues and other publications, including websites, in addition to the buying and selling of textiles in museum shops.
All those acts involved in recording a textile, including, in the case of this project, 'cataloguing' and finally the stage of 'research' in the sense of understanding its context and cultural relationships, aspects of style and sub-style, and its connections to other objects in world museum collections.
All those actions carried out by museums as part of cultural reflections, such as the care of textile objects that define their status and cultural level. These include: practices of acquisition, textile exhibitions, museum practices, etc.
Period characterised by hunter gatherer societies who adapt to different geographical environments and develop subsistence economies, technologies and particular visions of the world. Towards the end of the period there are found a great number of adaptations with tendencies towards sedentary societies and much more specialised economies.
Period characterised by hunter gatherer societies who adapt to different geographical environments and develop subsistence economies, technologies and particular visions of the world. Towards the end of the period there are found a great number of adaptations with tendencies towards sedentary societies and much more specialised economies.
Period during which societies become markedly more complex on the north and central coasts of Peru. It is characterised by the construction of ceremonial centres with pyramid structures and sunken plazas. In the mountains hunter gatherer forms of life continue and there is a development of herding related to the domestication of camelids.
Period related to early hunter gatherer populations with mixed or specialised economies in the central Andes. They are characterised by open air camps or life in rock shelters and the possession of technologies for working in stone, wood, bone and leather.
All those main or principal items that form the outer clothing of both men and women, and comprising general outer clothing, intermediate outer clothing and main outer clothing.
All those items of outer clothing made from manufactured cloth and introduced by Colonial society, like the blouse, shirts, jacket, chompa, doublet, trousers and skirts; and those made by hand such as underskirts, loincloths and genital covering.
Instrument made out of the sharpened shin bone of a llama, whose function is to consolidate and compress the weft threads and so increase the density by cms of the weft threads of the textile.
This refers to a process of the textile chain, linked directly to an activity that has to be learned during textile apprenticeship, for example, spinning, warping, weaving.
The set of actions advanced on the basis of agreements between individuals or groups of social actors and those authorities who have the power to determine the value of textiles in society.
Tejido elaborado sin telar, sólo con elementos manipulados en conjunto. Cloth made without a woom, and only with elements manipulated in their entirety.
Set of documents that are the result of documentary research on the subject of textiles at the archaeological, historical and ethnographic, lexicographic and informational levels. These include projects, plans, case studies, glossaries, dictionaries, data bases, including quotes in specialised bibilographies, which make a contribution to granting the cultural object scientific and heritage importance at the global level.
Results of different actions, such as the documentation and research carried out by different actors and institutions, together with the development of different frameworks of value and capital in the processes of textile heritage making in general.
Territorial unit into which the departement of a region is divided, and smaller in surface than the latter, and with a predominant productive character. Today there are 112 provinces in the national territory of Bolivia.