Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles

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  • Collection: Modern Guatemala

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Sets of tie-dyed warp threads (called cordeles) have been sold in the markets of Guatemala for decades. Without doing the tie-dyeing (jaspé) themselves, weavers can use them to make simple patterns such as in a small tzut. Cordeles in various…
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