The Jalq’as are a people of Quechua language who live in the Andes between Sucre, Potosi and Oruro in Bolivia. Their villages are difficult of access and remote in the mountain, but we managed to meet some weavers of this unique traditional style in black and red, featuring real and imaginary figures and demons.
The Jalq’as are recovering their weaving tradition, after the latter was “stolen” and produced in other places in the 1970’s, as this article in Spanish explains >>
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