ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEXTILE STUDIES IN PERU

JUNE 22 - JULY 13, 2008 IN AREQUIPA AND PUERTO INCA

Archaeological Textile Studies: June 22 - July 4, 2008 (two weeks; cost = $2040) in Arequipa.  Course includes hands-on experience in the analysis, written documentation and museum conservation of archaeological textile specimens.  Students learn to analyze textile specimens, document their features, and make a sampler of the ancient weaves they have analyzed.   We have lectures on the history of Peruvian cultures and their woven iconography.  The price includes an airport pickup in Arequipa,  hotel and meals in Arequipa during the course, course syllabus and course supplies.   Round trip airfare to Peru  is not included in the price. The following topics concerning ancient Peruvian weaving and their technical documentation are covered in the course:

fiber analysis	brocade	woven density
yarn spin/ply	warp-face patterns	double cloth
plain woven structures	discontinuous warp and weft	scaffold weave
types of selvages	thread count	tapestry
basic museum conservation

           

Excavation of Textile Specimens and South Coast Tour: July 5 – 12, 2008 (one week; cost = $1160). After the textile course, this session includes textile excavation and the care of textiles in the field at the coastal site of Pueblo Viejo, plus a tour of the south coastal sites of Puerto Inca, Nasca, Ica, Paracas, Ballistas Islands, Tambo Colorado and a visit to two museums in Lima. 

 

SEMESTER COURSE IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEXTILES
AT UCSM IN AREQUIPA IN 2008

Contact Grace Katterman with any questions about the courses, the class schedule, or sign-up sheet at glkatt@hotmail.com

Archaeological Textile Course: April 2 - June 20, 2008 in Arequipa.

For students with an interest in Peruvian archaeology, museum studies and ancient textile history.  The course will be offered during the Spring Semester of 2008 by Museo Santuario y la Universidad Católica  de Santa Maria (UCSM), in Arequipa.  UCSM has ties to a number of sister  universities in the U.S through which you can sign up for the course.  Instructor:  Grace Katterman of the California Institute for Peruvian Studies (CIPS).  The course will include the following topics:

• Textile history of ancient Peruvian cultures.
• Identification of natural fibers utilized in making textiles.
• The care and  handling of textiles in the field, laboratory and museum settings. (cleaning, flattening, aligning the yarns and preparing window mounts. Students will learn the importance of  dealing with textile fragments.
• Identification of common ancient textile structures (looping, knotting, plaiting, twining, plain weaves, twill, warp face, weft face, double cloth, brocade, tapestry, etc).  Students will analyze, diagram and weave samples of the various types of  ancient textile structures.

The students will learn standardized methods of documenting textile information (measurements, fiber, coloration, yarn spin/ply, woven structure, density, selvages, types of garments, types of seams and embroidered edge finishes.)  Students will have weekly projects in the analysis of textile specimens, including recording the information in a standardized manner on paper and in the computer. 

Students will also be assigned topics of textile interest to present in class.

There will be a final exam.

  

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Katterman, Grace and Francis Riddell
1994 A Cache of Inca Textiles from Rodadero, Acari Valley, Peru in the Journal
of Andean Past, Vol.4. Cornell University Latin American Studies Program, Ithica, NY. Press. pp.141-167

Katterman, Grace
1994 Early Cotton Textiles from Hacha,Peru. The Journal of Andean Past, Vol. 4
Cornell University Latin American Studies Program, Ithica, NY. pp. 39-51.

2004 Tela y Tecnica Entre Los Incas Provincianos de la Costa Sur Del Peru.
Tejiendo Suenos en el Cono Sur, textiles andinos: Pasado, Presente y Futuro.
Actas del Simposio, Arq 21, 51st Congreso Internacional de Americanistas,
Santiago de Chile, Julio de 2003, pp. 261-276.

2006a Costuras de Union y Remates apuntadas de la Ropa del la Costa Sur del
Peru durante los tiempos de los Incas, Actas, III Jornadas Internacionales
sobre Textiles Precolombinos. Victoria Solanilla Demestre (ed). Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona, pp.261-276.

2006b Tributo Estandardizado de la Ropa de Mujer al Servicio del Gobierno Inca.
Foletto de exhibición en El Museo Sanctuarios Andinos, Arequipa. Universidad
Catolica de Santa Maria y el Instituto Californiano de los Estudios Peruanos, Arequipa. (8 paginas)

2007 Una Comparison de las Tunicas de la Costa Sur durante el Horizante Tardio,
Boletín Andes, Materiales del Simposio Internacional sobre Arqueológia del Area Centro Sur Andina, 30 Junio - 2 July, 2005. Universidad de Varsoya y la Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria, Arequipa.

In press: Clothing from Quebrada de la Vaca West, an Inca Cemetery of the South
Coast of Peru. The Journal of Andean Past, Vol. 7, Cornell University Latin
American Studies Program, Ithica, NY