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Threads of Culture

Threads of Culture
Andean Textiles Through Time

The “Threads of Culture,� Andean Textiles Through Time was displayed on

October 12 – December 10 at the SFA Art Gallery. The Art Center @ The Old Opera

House at 329 E. Main Street, Nacogdoches, TX 75962 held the opening reception at

6p.m. with the speaker being Michael T Ricker who discussed were exactly the threads of

Culture came from.

The Andean textiles have surpassed the test of time as well as weaved their past

within the stitched miraculously placed with each pattern. A textile was specifically

created for a person’s family and thus stitched together with an unbreakable kind of love.

Textiles were made for social events and their social status and plus special occasions.

An Andean would offer or surrender precious commodities; however, when it came to

there textiles they would rather burn them instead of seeing them misused by an outsider.

In which......

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