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Glossary

objeto de conservación
It can refer both to elements with material representation, such as structures, architectonic ensembles, panels with rock drawings, archaeological roads and deposits, and also to elements whose existence is not defined by specific material references, but by all the relations established between them, as for example, circulation, routes and landscape. Objects of conservation are found inside units of conservation, so that objectives, strategies and acts of conservation that are implemented must not entail damage to other objects of conservation in the same unit.
obtención de recurso natural
The process by which natural resources for textile production are obtained.
ojota
Sandals, originally of camelid hide, wicker (the fibre of Furcraea or plaited plant fibres) or rope, and now recycled rubber.
olla para fermentación
Receptacle made out of ceramic, metal or wood used to macerate dyestuff plants or barks in a liquid for a long time, even to the point of fermentation and so free up the glucosides of the colorants.
olla para teñir
Receptacle of ceramic or metal (often aluminium) used to prepare the dye in the process of dyeing, especially natural dyes like indigo or purple derived from shellfish, that require heating over a fire.
Omereque
Textile style of the Omereque culture during the Middle Horizon, found in in the south east of the department of Oruro. Fabrics in warp face and textile technique are used.
operación
This refers to an ordered sequence of actions in textile learning that is gradually learned to be carried out automatically.
organización estatal
Organisational form under state control.
organización no gubernamental textil
Organisational form aimed at textile production and commercialisation, made up of members of an institutional agency often without financial aims (NGO).
organización no gubernamental con programa textil
Institution (NGO) that carries forward textile programmes, for example, in the case of Bolivia, the Chakana organisaton, or in Peru, the CTTC organisation.
organización productiva
Grouping of social actors whose aim is textile production.
organización social de producción
Action and effect of networks of actors socially organising around textile production, through the differentiation of their functions and coordinated activites, that ideally includes the whole chain of textile production.
ovillado
Process by which the simple or plaited thread is ordered as the raw material for textile production, by winding it manually or with an instrument made for the purpose.
ovillador
Instrument used in the process of winding thread or yarn which includes the hand winders of the past and the electrical winders that are already used in rural areas of the Andes. Among the hand winders are those made of stone and those made out of seeds.
ovillador de piedra
Type of winder made out of stone and used in winding yarn. Stone winders are used especially for winding threads of natural colour.
ovillador de semilla
Type of winder made out of seed used in the process of winding.