$180.00
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Isabel Apasa Machaca from Hapu wove this sacred mesa cloth using all natural alpaca fibers from her multi-colored herd. The Inti – Sun God – symbols throughout this handsome mesa cloth represent the contrast between night and day. This large textile featured finely spun yarns and precise detail. Your purchase helps Isabel, her family and her community of Hapu to build a stable life where they can live in their ancestral homelands and practice their spiritual traditions. Your textile is soft and folds nicely. It measures nearly square 29.5 x 28 inches. 75 x 71 cm.
Learn how your purchase helps the Q’ero people: Q’ero Life in the Andes: A Partnership.
To learn more about Q’ero weaving and watch them spin and weave, watch this brief video: Weaving in the Q’ero Nation.
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The Qero cut the hair of alpaca, sheep and llama to sell for cash income and to weave mesa cloths, belts, blankets, bags, and ponchos. They also knit hats and braid ropes with fiber from their herds....