Thursday 23 February 2012





this is an image from the on line store Darkroom which sells menswear, womenswear and items for the home. This is from their 'Aztec Camera' collection which takes inspiration from central america looking at Aztec patterns and Peruvian weaving. You can easily see the link between Peruvian weaving and the collection through the bright colours they have chosen.
One particular place i have personally seen the inflluence of Peruvian weaving is in the 2012 collection of Topman shorts. The shorts here have just a flash of the theme round the hem in many bright colours, probably because for a shop a whole short made with this pattern in all these colours would be relatively hard to sell.


Here is another example of shorts were the pattern and colours have clearly descended from traditional peruvian weaving, especially with the bright red which is favoured by the weavers of Peru.
The dress above is by a designer named Jennifer Parry Dodge, whose company is Ermie. here you can see the use of the main colour red, mixed with greens and blues in quite natural looking hues. you can also see the influence of Peruvian weaving in the triangular shapes which are involved on the blue stripe.

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