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Five Months Gone

  • Abby Franquemont
  • Apr 12, 2014
  • 43 Comments So far
  • Articles | Other Stuff | Peru

Yesterday morning five months ago, my mother got off a plane in Cusco, Peru. I can’t begin to guess how many times in her life my mother had done just that, or how many times — just like this one — she was met at the airport by Nilda and her husband Paulino. I was […]

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Tell me a bit about Andean spinning!

  • Abby Franquemont
  • Jan 29, 2008
  • 23 Comments So far
  • andean spinning, andean textiles, Peru, Spindles, spinning
  • Articles | Handspinning | Peru | Spinning Tech

I’ve answered a few questions in various places over the past several months about Andean spinning, which is a subject very near and dear to my heart. I first learned to spin in the Peruvian community to which my family moved when my sister and I were little, and spinning in the Andean way is […]

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A First Look At Something Huge

  • Abby Franquemont
  • Jan 4, 2008
  • 52 Comments So far
  • Anthropology, Books, Childhood, Chinchero, CTTC, culture, Family, Nilda, Peru, spinning, Weaving
  • Fiber Arts At Large | Peru

It’s hard to know where to begin, so I’ll dive right in. Something arrived in the mail last month, packed in an Interweave envelope and bent in half (argh!) in my mailbox. I knew right away what it had to be and I was torn between opening it on the spot in the chill at […]

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  • Office Hours 9 August 2022 at 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tuesdays 3 pm Peru TimeQuestions for Office Hours should be submitted in advance. If there are not enough Qs to hold an OH, it may be cancelled and replaced with social spinning on Discord.See your discord channels for the zoom links for live Office HoursSee your class channel for the YouTube playlist with recordings from…
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