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  2. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    Production shifted from small cottage based production to mass production based on assembly line organisation. Clothing production, on the other hand, continued to be made by hand. Sewing machines emerged in the 19th century [84] streamlining clothing production. Textiles were not only made in factories. Before this, they were made in local and ...

  3. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    [7] Aguayos are clothes woven from camelid fibers with geometric designs that Andean women wear and use for carrying babies or goods. Inca textiles. Awasaka was the most common grade of weaving produced by the Incas of all the ancient Peruvian textiles, this was the grade most commonly used in the production of Inca clothing. Awaska was made ...

  4. Andean textiles - Wikipedia

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    Of all the ancient Peruvian textiles, this was the grade most commonly used in the production of Inca clothing. Awaska was made from llama or alpaca wool and had a much higher thread count (approximately 120 threads per inch) than that found in chusi cloth.

  5. Pre-Columbian Peru - Wikipedia

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    These early crops were mainly industrial, and were used in fishing. The cotton was used to make nets and lines, while the gourds were used as floats. Larger, more complex societies formed around 3000 BCE, and this is now known as the Cotton Preceramic Period, which was part of the Andean preceramic period. These early societies focused on the ...

  6. Nazca culture - Wikipedia

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    Nazca Female Effigy Figure, made of sperm whale tooth, shell and hair. The Nazca culture (also Nasca) was the archaeological culture that flourished from c. 100 BC to 800 AD beside the arid, southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley. [1]

  7. Paracas textile - Wikipedia

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    Tello first visited the site on July 26, 1925 following a trail that had begun in 1915 when he had purchased ancient textiles in Pisco, Peru. [5] On 25 October 1927, Tello and his team uncovered the first of hundreds of ceremonial mummified bundle burials. Tello discovered a necropolis that contained corpses that were sat in baskets.

  8. History of cotton - Wikipedia

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    All the same tools were invented to work it also, including combs, bows, hand spindles, and primitive looms. [2]: 11–13 Cotton has been cultivated and used by humans for thousands of years, with evidence of cotton fabrics dating back to ancient civilizations in India, Egypt, and Peru.

  9. Chancay culture - Wikipedia

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    Water reservoirs and irrigation canals were built by engineers in order to develop agriculture. As the culture was geographically located on the oceanfront, they were involved in traditional fishing both from the shore as well as further out to sea from their caballitos de totora, an ancient type of watercraft unique to Peru. The Chancay also ...