What is it that compels a craftsperson to excellence? To go beyond what is necessary and to work in cooperation with others? Early in my own weaving career ...

The poncho Where does the garment term poncho come from? The European languages have also integrated a loan word for a Latin American garment, the poncho, in...

« Words survive longer than cloth », wrote textile scholar Elizabeth Barber in 1991 about the prehistory of textiles in Europe and the ancient Near East. B...

When two unrelated languages share a word, one may assume that one of the two languages has borrowed the word from the other. However, it is often difficul...

Dear all, Today was a day devoted to the discovery of a preeminent destination in one of the most famous Andean trails. Machu Picchu, a Unesco World Herita...

Dear all, Yesterday we arrived to Cusco after an extra night in Lima due to a cancelled flight.However we manage to arrive in time to our meeting at the El...

The Centre for Textile Research is in Peru  to learn about another exciting textile culture and again a group of archaeologists, historians, conservators a...

Dear all, Today the group split into two. The first group attended a half-day workshop at the University San Marcos, the oldest university in South America. ...

Dear all, Today some of us started early to see the Nazca lines from the air. After we went to the Museo Arquelogica Antonini in Nazca. Here we saw some very...

Dear all, We started today with a brief break from the textiles, with a boat trip to the Ballestas Islands, the Peruvian version of the Galapagos. We then ...

Dear all, Six of the party began the day with a short visit to the archaeology department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and a meeting with P...

Dear all, We visited the Museum  Amano with its collection of textiles from the earliest basketry to treasures of the Inca period. Doris Robles, the curator...

Lake Titicaca is the highest navigated lake in the world at the altitude of 3 810 m above sea level. Peru shares it with Bolivia. The lake has a unique chara...

Visit to the Terre de lin museum in Fontaine-le-Dun and pulling up flax at the château de Silleron (Angiens) Different varieties of flax are used to produce...

Introduction During a research stay[1] at the famous Bronze Age site Kültepe/Kaneš, Turkey, Cecile Michel, Catherine Breniquet and Eva Andersson Strand ha...

The workshop has brought together a number of scholars addressing textile craft from different points of view. It is my hope that we can continue discussions...

It's been a great workshop with different perspectives and interesting discussions. One perspective I have been missing is to see and talk about Bedouin text...

Dear all, Here's the very last picture from the workshop taken at the Istanbul airport, where many of us waited for 5 hours to get back home. Until next time...

Dear all, Most of the day was spent in a bus. The bus left the Mövenpick Nabatean Castle at 9.00 am and took us straight to Umm al-Rasas. In Umm al-Rasas we ...

Some examples are the concepts described as structured terminology in the Jordan museum where the findings of textile remains from the history of Jordan are ...