Paracas: The Most Splendid Textiles of The Americas

Presented by Maria Chester

The Paracas civilisation developed between 800 BCE and 100 BCE. Paracas textiles included complex weaving techniques, elaborate plaiting and knotting. Paracas necropolises contained bodies in baskets wrapped in large cotton textiles embroidered with camelid fibres. Paracas embroideries are considered the finest ever produced in the Americas and are remarkable works of art. Designs on textiles were achieved by painting, embroidering, sewing feathers of rare tropical birds and using 3D ‘structural weaving’. Peruvian weaving remains one of the finest traditions in the world.

Dates and Locations

23 July – Toowoomba (QLD)

26 July – Rockhampton (QLD)

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