Introduction / Serge Lemaitre -- Camelid wools: an unsuspected diversity / Elise Dufour and Nicolas Goepfert -- Fibres and dye used in textiles from the Andes / Beatriz Devia Castillo -- Feathers and ...

The Inca Empire in Peru was an expansive and complex civilization that thrived in the pre-Columbian era between about 1400 and 1530. At the time of the Spanish conquistador’s arrival (Pizarro landed ...

The fabric starts as a bold field of red, showing off the astonishingly high thread count, before it gives way to a black-and-white checkerboard pattern that repeats for the remaining length of the ...

The ancient Inca were a textile society and thus skilled in working with natural fibers including alpaca and cotton. Still, it might surprise people today that their solution to crossing the canyons ...