Textiles

Like the despacho cloth, the Q'ero use other plain-woven pieces of cloth to carry goods and food. This cloth is an example of the Q'ero carrying cloth, usually woven in more subtle, natural shades and without tassels or pom-poms at the four corners. Previously owned, this cloth bears the signs of wear from its former owner, giving it a classic broken in look. Woven in the high Andes of Peru.

Like the despacho cloth, the Q'ero use other plain-woven pieces of cloth to carry goods and food. This cloth is an example of the Q'ero carrying cloth, usually woven in more subtle, natural shades in a four corner design. This cloth has a very fine drape and is woven from soft wool, likely alpaca or an alpaca blend.   Woven in in the high Andes of Peru

Like the despacho cloth, the Q'ero use other plain-woven pieces of cloth to carry goods and food. This cloth is an example of the Q'ero carrying cloth, usually woven in more subtle, natural shades in a four corner design. This cloth has a very fine drape and is woven from soft wool, likely alpaca or an alpaca blend.   Woven in in the high Andes of Peru

Like the despacho cloth, the Q'ero use other plain-woven pieces of cloth to carry goods and food. This cloth is an example of the Q'ero carrying cloth, usually woven in more subtle, natural shades in a four corner design. This cloth has a very fine drape and is woven from soft wool, likely alpaca or an alpaca blend.   Woven in in the high Andes of Peru

This colorful hand woven mestana cloth features both the Inkarri and the rising and setting sun, or Inti, motifs. Woven by Q'ero women in the Sacred Valley of Peru.

This colorful hand woven mestana cloth features both the Inkarri and the rising and setting sun, or Inti, motifs. Woven by Q'ero women in the Sacred Valley of Peru.

Two Q'ero traditional supplementary-warp woven patterns are combined in this mestana cloth: Qocha, lake, in the center, and rising and setting sun, Inti, along the sides. We like to call it our Fire and Water mestana.  Hand woven by Q'ero women living in the high Peruvian Andes.