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A Study on the Peruvian textiles

The textiles arts are very old peru and weaving may be as old in Mesoamerica. The oldest textiles brought to light so far , on the sites of Guitarrero and Callejon de Huaylas in the north of Peru, date back to about the year 8500 B.C. The first Peruvian fabrics were twined from the leaf and bast fibers of local plants. Cotton was the principal fiber used in pre-conquest Peru. The other major pre-conquest fiber was wool from the highland camelids-the llama, alpaca, and vicuna. Peruvian textiles are noted not only for their diversity but also for their technical exellence. Also the loom of Peru was the same simple backstrap or waist loom and vertical loom, horizontal ground loom. Peruvian textiles were made in plain weave, tapestry weave, gauze, plaiting & braiding, double-cloth, Knotting, network, brocading. The wearing artists of Peru, deeply aware of their reciprocal relationships with nature and the gods. The peruvian textile has a very exensive range of colors and design. Each of the many pervian cultures produced garments with different representational and geometric designs. Peruvian textiles are very excellent and fine. So peruvian textiles are important in a history of textiles.