When I started looking at Peruvian weaving I chose it like something that was the best option out of a bad bunch in my view, and was dreading looking at the historical weaving and thought I would find the contemporary side of things a lot more interesting, but after getting into it I really enjoyed the historical researching, especially learning how long the process took. I think the colours that are used in Peruvian weaving are much brighter then most things found in clothes and home wear nowadays as well which played quite a big part in my liking of them.

In my own project i was looking at toothpaste with stripes in which involves red and blue and I don't know if maybe it happened subconsciously but the brightness of the colours does seem to reflect the Peruvian weaves in some way, especially in the red.

 

I also wanted to try to create the marks that are found in a lot of the high street Peruvian/Aztec style clothes. I done that by twisting two threads that were woven at the same time.

 

Peruvian Connection is a company started by a mother and daughter in 1976. Biddy Hurlbut, the mother, was fascinated with the peruvian style weaves and pretty much passed that love oonto her daughter, Annie. Annie then began designing and making her own sweaters in the Peruvian style and sold them.

the companies main ethos is to be able to sell artisan made garments and home wear pieces and to celebrate the history and the preciousness of the peruvian weaves.