Pre-production in Chinchero, Peru

In order to prepare the creation of our textile medium, we went to Chinchero Peru. With the help of Nilda Callañaupa, director of The Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco and the local weaving community we were able to produce 20 kilo of mainly natural dyed woolen threads of Alpaca, Lama and Sheep. Hereby we tried to stick as close as possible to our colour code, a result of encoding our mental images and stories...

The following pictures depict chronologically the thread making process with the weaving community of Chinchero, Cusco Peru.



defining colors



making cactus bug red



dying



more dying



showing of



cooking



color check



first delivery



red threads



coloring green



drying threads



coiling up threads




some balls of thread

Making textile threads with weaving community in Chinchero, Cusco, Peru