The history of textiles in Peru started 5,000 years ago when pre-Inca and Inca civilization weavers mastered natural cotton and alpaca fibers. Now, these ancestral techniques, combined with modern ...

Olga de Amaral, “Woven Gridded Wall #66" (Muro tejido cuadriculado #66) (1970), wool and horsehair, 119 x 70 x 20 inches (all photos Julie Smith Schneider/Hyperallergic) A current of cross-cultural, ...

Known traditionally for their folksy appeal, Peruvian textiles created high in the Andes mountains are being re-invented for the 21st Century. By Dominic Lutyens. With their strong, saturated colours ...

Low, mud-brick houses speckle a lonely mountainside, like pale yellow dots atop a sea of coarse grass, each green blade ebbing and flowing in a stiff, spring breeze. Isolated at nine thousand feet ...

The art of making captivating Peruvian textiles has traditionally been anonymous work. But at 75, Sara Flores is making a name for herself with hypnotic abstractions Flores holds up leaves from the ...

Pacchanta's Maria Merma Gonzalo practices weaving techniques that have changed little in 500 years. Courtesy Andrea M. Heckman In the shadow of the 20,800-foot snow-clad peak of Ausangate in the ...

The Sacred Valley, drained by the Urubamba River, is home to rich, fertile soil that has made it a cradle of Peruvian agriculture for centuries. Many vegetables we now enjoy originated in Peru, where ...