Plan or design of the textile work in terms of its size, form and structural, technical and iconographic characteristics, before starting the work in practice. It includes certain instruments (waraña and tupu) which assist the standardisation of these forms of planning.
Small deep pottery plate or dish used to balance and centre the spinning of the spindle or distaff during the processof spinning and so obtaining a finer and more uniform thread.
Use of textiles to express the power and status of the wearer, by means of the iconographic composition and above all the use of high status colours: red, blue, yellow.
Politics behind textile use, as forms of resistance, in struggles for identity and recognition as indigenous, use of clothing by authorities to express their indigeneity, etc.
Item of women's clothing, like a wide, long skirt, introduced by the influence of the Spaniards in the 19th century, made at first from fine velvet cloth, but now out of nylon cloth.
Item of men's clothing, a variant of the tunic, unco or open poncho of reduced dimensions. It has its origins in pre-Inka cultures: they are items found in dowries in Paracas and have a connection to the Pre-Colonial cloak.
Item of men's clothing in the form of a rectangular tunic, made out of two pieces, and with an opening in the central part to allow the head to pass through, made on a base of camelid hair.
Practices during warfare where parts of the body are exchanged between groups, for example, in the important presentation of the trophy head in the past, and their association with the origins of textiles.
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.
