Exports of textiles and garments from Peru reached $272 million in the first two months of the year, a 7 percent increase over the same period last year and most of that growth was owed to increased ...

(MENAFN- 3BL) Violeta Pacheco's clothing company, Tejidos Peruanos, is based in the Lima neighborhood of Villa El Salvador, home to some of Lima's poorest residents. Despite the area's poverty, Villa ...

All the items in “Irresistible: The Global Patterns of Ikat” — well, all but one — were woven with the same painstaking technique. But the robes, wraps and wall hangings on exhibit at the George ...

Buoyant, bright and ancestral: These attributes are preeminent when perusing the latest fashion collections hailing from Peru. For a country rich with mineral wealth, natural beauty and a textile ...

For some people in the ancient Andes, textiles could serve not only as a record of their physical surroundings, but also as guides to aid in the transition to the next world. This textile, which was ...

A rare and fragile Peruvian funeral shroud dating back to the pre-Inca period has gone on display in Lima after being returned by a Swedish museum. The Shroud of Gothernburg consists of more than 80 ...