Inca textiles

Lot - Pre-Columbian, Nazca Culture, Manta Textile

Paired step-block units create squares in following color combinations; light blue/brown, yellow/dark blue, green/red. Tie-dye designs of diamonds and striped in natural, red, yellow. Selvedges and fringe intact.

Cuzco was the heart of the vast Inca empire, but all changed in the 16th century when the capital was conquered by Spanish invaders. Michael J Schreffler investigates the Inca city, and how it went from the centre of one empire to the periphery of another.

The Inca were the largest prehispanic empire of South America when it was 'discovered' by the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century AD.

Andean Textiles | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Chancay Textiles

In the Andes, writing with characters on a surface was not known, as understood in the western world, but khipus seem to have been an effective mnemonic tool in the administrative tasks of the Inca civilization. basically a khipu was an ancient way of

Pre-Columbian Inca Textile, Peru, circa: 1500. Repinned by Elizabeth VanBuskirk, author of "Beyond the Stones of Machu Picchu," short stories and folk tales that involve the meaning in people's lives of Peruvian Inca weavings today.