How to Buy a Piece of Peruvian Textile: walking to the streets of Cusco, you’ll see the colorful Peruvian textiles all around.

Mainstream history relates how human beings hunted their way out of Africa and eventually reached the landmass now called South America about 15,000 years ago.

Located in the heart of Cusco, the ancient capital city of the Inca empire, the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco (CTTC) acts as a bridge between past and present Peruvian cultural identity. Its origins lie in the 1970s when a group of Quechua women weavers from the community of Chinchero started to gather together to revive textile traditions and earn an independent income through the sale of their textiles in the growing tourist market. #PeruvianFabric #PeruvianCollection

Paired step-block units create squares in following color combinations; light blue/brown, yellow/dark blue, green/red. Tie-dye designs of diamonds and striped in natural, red, yellow. Selvedges and fringe intact.

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We visit CTTC and its founder Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez to learn about Peruvian Textiles and what's being done to protect Andean craft for future generations

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Shipibo embroidered textile (detail), Peruvian Amazon