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an old rug with different colored designs on it

Pre-Columbian Tapestry Textile. Very interesting mounted fragments of both faces of a large coca bag. Excellent color and preservation. This mixed technique tapestry and patterned warp faced weave composition is ...

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an orange and blue rug with squares in the middle, on top of it's surface

Repinned by Elizabeth VanBuskirk. Textile excivated in Paracas, Peru ( a full mantle). pre-Columbian culture-- over two thousand years old. These textiles have wonderful detailed figures, mostly costumed and gyrating in dance.

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an old quilt with many squares and lines on the front, along with other patterns

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.

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an old piece of cloth that has been made into a decorative pattern on the side

Golden brown Pre-Columbian textile fragment with dark blue geometric patterns. This piece is framed in a black shadowbox. It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a Pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts -- so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain…

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