Dec 11, 2015 3 min Peru | Finding Craftsmanship and Cooperation in Peru 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...
Dec 8, 2015 1 min Peru | Guest bloggers Marie-Louise and Una The poncho Where does the garment term poncho come from? The European languages have also integrated a loan word for a Latin American gar...
Dec 8, 2015 2 min Peru | Guest bloggers Marie -Louise and Una « Words survive longer than cloth », wrote textile scholar Elizabeth Barber in 1991 about the prehistory of textiles in Europe and the ...
Dec 8, 2015 2 min Peru | Guest bloggers Marie -Louise and Una When two unrelated languages share a word, one may assume that one of the two languages has borrowed the word from the other. However, i...
Nov 30, 2015 1 min Peru | DAY 9 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 ...
Nov 28, 2015 2 min Peru | DAY 7 & 8 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 o...
Nov 27, 2015 1 min CTR study tour to Peru The Centre for Textile Research is in Peru to learn about another exciting textile culture and again a group of archaeologists, histori...
Nov 27, 2015 2 min Peru | DAY 6 Dear all, Today the group split into two. The first group attended a half-day workshop at the University San Marcos, the oldest universit...
Nov 26, 2015 1 min Peru | DAY 5 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. H...
Nov 25, 2015 1 min Peru | DAY 4 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 ...
