Threads of Time: Tradition and Change in Indigenous American Textiles
Spinning and Weaving Tools
Title
Spinning and Weaving Tools
Collection Items
Weaver's Work Basket and Contents
Due to the dry climate of the ancient Andes, thousands upon thousands of textiles were preserved from antiquity, as well as weaving and spinning tools and balls of yarn, often accompanying the deceased. Both elaborating these tools and then burying…
