Colour and Culture

Pre columbian dyes: natural wealth

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The sources of pre-Columbian Peru dyes were numerous fruit of the enormous natural wealth of the Andean-Amazonian territory.

Pre columbian dyes: ancestral art

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The pre-columbian textiles is a technique transformed into a work of art, that made tanticamayoc, dyers cauticamayos or former Peru together with cumbicamayoc or weavers, managed with great skill in their textiles reflect their life and environment.

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