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...
Travel Journals
Peru
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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 ...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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 ...
- Nov 24, 2015
- 2 min
Peru | DAY 3
Dear all, Six of the party began the day with a short visit to the archaeology department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru...
- Nov 23, 2015
- 1 min
Peru | DAY 2
Dear all, We visited the Museum Amano with its collection of textiles from the earliest basketry to treasures of the Inca period. Doris ...
- Nov 20, 2015
- 4 min
Lifestyle at lake Titikaka
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...