Pre-Hispanic loom and Textile of the Paracas culture of Southern Peru Paracas Textiles Paracas, from the Quechua langua...

Burial Cloths Textiles are fragile, ancient textiles are exceedingly so. It is remarkable that there are any extant, ancient textile...

Cleaning My Closet We are finally renovating our master en suite, the workers are due this week.   The one problem is that we are als...

As Fibers Seep into Water, States Seek Warning Tags     By Lindsey Rupp     Bloomberg News I have written before about the conten...

Meet the Camelids – Part Three In my previous blogs I discussed the members of the camelid family: camels, vicunas and guanacos.   Tw...

Meet the Camelids –Part two In Meet the Camelids (part one – 4-15-18) I discussed the origins of members of the camelid family, namel...

Meet the Camelids The Camelid family originated in North America around 50 million years ago, and one would have thought that camel...