Name of Seminar: Textiles in the Andes
Field Coordinator: Lic. Nilda Callañawpa

Course description & Synthetic content:
This course is to be held in the native community of Chinchero, located 20 miles away from Cusco in a high plateau (12,ooo feet).

We will visit the community members who have organized themselves in order to display the whole process of weaving. From the first steps of sheering the wool of sheep or Alpaca until the finest garments.

The 10 to 12 different steps of the process are represented by one woman who explains and demonstrate her abilities.

We will have Nilda (who speaks an excellent English) and is a weaver herself explain the complexity of the techniques and procedures, as well as the meaning of the motifs.
Nilda will also have the young girls demonstrating their knowledge and abilities, and how they got involved with a learning process.

While the demonstration goes on, we will enjoy a lunch prepared by our hosts.

Academic objectives:
By the end of this course the students will gain a close understanding of the weavings as a way of expression, and an will also get emotionally related towards the native culture.
They will learn about the process and develop a respectfull attitude. Most likelly they will also be able to try over the loom.
This is a course planned to be “Hands on”

Achievements:

• The students will learn the different steps of the process of weaving.
• The students will be able to recognize the different motifs and some of the meanings of the most important forms.
• They will understand the teaching learning. Process.
• They will relate the weaving art with a complex symbolic world that find its expression in a living culture, a moving society and has its roots in the remotest History.

Name of Seminar: Textiles in the Andes
Field Coordinator: Lic. Nilda Callañawpa

Course description & Synthetic content:
This course is to be held in the native community of Chinchero, located 20 miles away from Cusco in a high plateau (12,ooo feet).

We will visit the community members who have organized themselves in order to display the whole process of weaving. From the first steps of sheering the wool of sheep or Alpaca until the finest garments.

The 10 to 12 different steps of the process are represented by one woman who explains and demonstrate her abilities.

We will have Nilda (who speaks an excellent English) and is a weaver herself explain the complexity of the techniques and procedures, as well as the meaning of the motifs.
Nilda will also have the young girls demonstrating their knowledge and abilities, and how they got involved with a learning process.

While the demonstration goes on, we will enjoy a lunch prepared by our hosts.

Academic objectives:
By the end of this course the students will gain a close understanding of the weavings as a way of expression, and an will also get emotionally related towards the native culture.
They will learn about the process and develop a respectfull attitude. Most likelly they will also be able to try over the loom.
This is a course planned to be “Hands on”

Achievements:

• The students will learn the different steps of the process of weaving.
• The students will be able to recognize the different motifs and some of the meanings of the most important forms.
• They will understand the teaching learning. Process.
• They will relate the weaving art with a complex symbolic world that find its expression in a living culture, a moving society and has its roots in the remotest History.

Name of Seminar: Textiles in the Andes
Field Coordinator: Lic. Nilda Callañawpa

Course description & Synthetic content:
This course is to be held in the native community of Chinchero, located 20 miles away from Cusco in a high plateau (12,ooo feet).

We will visit the community members who have organized themselves in order to display the whole process of weaving. From the first steps of sheering the wool of sheep or Alpaca until the finest garments.

The 10 to 12 different steps of the process are represented by one woman who explains and demonstrate her abilities.

We will have Nilda (who speaks an excellent English) and is a weaver herself explain the complexity of the techniques and procedures, as well as the meaning of the motifs.
Nilda will also have the young girls demonstrating their knowledge and abilities, and how they got involved with a learning process.

While the demonstration goes on, we will enjoy a lunch prepared by our hosts.

Academic objectives:
By the end of this course the students will gain a close understanding of the weavings as a way of expression, and an will also get emotionally related towards the native culture.
They will learn about the process and develop a respectfull attitude. Most likelly they will also be able to try over the loom.
This is a course planned to be “Hands on”

Achievements:

• The students will learn the different steps of the process of weaving.
• The students will be able to recognize the different motifs and some of the meanings of the most important forms.
• They will understand the teaching learning. Process.
• They will relate the weaving art with a complex symbolic world that find its expression in a living culture, a moving society and has its roots in the remotest History.

Name of Seminar: Textiles in the Andes
Field Coordinator: Lic. Nilda Callañawpa

Course description & Synthetic content:
This course is to be held in the native community of Chinchero, located 20 miles away from Cusco in a high plateau (12,ooo feet).

We will visit the community members who have organized themselves in order to display the whole process of weaving. From the first steps of sheering the wool of sheep or Alpaca until the finest garments.

The 10 to 12 different steps of the process are represented by one woman who explains and demonstrate her abilities.

We will have Nilda (who speaks an excellent English) and is a weaver herself explain the complexity of the techniques and procedures, as well as the meaning of the motifs.
Nilda will also have the young girls demonstrating their knowledge and abilities, and how they got involved with a learning process.

While the demonstration goes on, we will enjoy a lunch prepared by our hosts.

Academic objectives:
By the end of this course the students will gain a close understanding of the weavings as a way of expression, and an will also get emotionally related towards the native culture.
They will learn about the process and develop a respectfull attitude. Most likelly they will also be able to try over the loom.
This is a course planned to be “Hands on”

Achievements:

• The students will learn the different steps of the process of weaving.
• The students will be able to recognize the different motifs and some of the meanings of the most important forms.
• They will understand the teaching learning. Process.
• They will relate the weaving art with a complex symbolic world that find its expression in a living culture, a moving society and has its roots in the remotest History.

Name of Seminar: Textiles in the Andes
Field Coordinator: Lic. Nilda Callañawpa

Course description & Synthetic content:
This course is to be held in the native community of Chinchero, located 20 miles away from Cusco in a high plateau (12,ooo feet).

We will visit the community members who have organized themselves in order to display the whole process of weaving. From the first steps of sheering the wool of sheep or Alpaca until the finest garments.

The 10 to 12 different steps of the process are represented by one woman who explains and demonstrate her abilities.

We will have Nilda (who speaks an excellent English) and is a weaver herself explain the complexity of the techniques and procedures, as well as the meaning of the motifs.
Nilda will also have the young girls demonstrating their knowledge and abilities, and how they got involved with a learning process.

While the demonstration goes on, we will enjoy a lunch prepared by our hosts.

Academic objectives:
By the end of this course the students will gain a close understanding of the weavings as a way of expression, and an will also get emotionally related towards the native culture.
They will learn about the process and develop a respectfull attitude. Most likelly they will also be able to try over the loom.
This is a course planned to be “Hands on”

Achievements:

• The students will learn the different steps of the process of weaving.
• The students will be able to recognize the different motifs and some of the meanings of the most important forms.
• They will understand the teaching learning. Process.
• They will relate the weaving art with a complex symbolic world that find its expression in a living culture, a moving society and has its roots in the remotest History.

Name of Seminar: Textiles in the Andes
Field Coordinator: Lic. Nilda Callañawpa

Course description & Synthetic content:
This course is to be held in the native community of Chinchero, located 20 miles away from Cusco in a high plateau (12,ooo feet).

We will visit the community members who have organized themselves in order to display the whole process of weaving. From the first steps of sheering the wool of sheep or Alpaca until the finest garments.

The 10 to 12 different steps of the process are represented by one woman who explains and demonstrate her abilities.

We will have Nilda (who speaks an excellent English) and is a weaver herself explain the complexity of the techniques and procedures, as well as the meaning of the motifs.
Nilda will also have the young girls demonstrating their knowledge and abilities, and how they got involved with a learning process.

While the demonstration goes on, we will enjoy a lunch prepared by our hosts.

Academic objectives:
By the end of this course the students will gain a close understanding of the weavings as a way of expression, and an will also get emotionally related towards the native culture.
They will learn about the process and develop a respectfull attitude. Most likelly they will also be able to try over the loom.
This is a course planned to be “Hands on”

Achievements:

• The students will learn the different steps of the process of weaving.
• The students will be able to recognize the different motifs and some of the meanings of the most important forms.
• They will understand the teaching learning. Process.
• They will relate the weaving art with a complex symbolic world that find its expression in a living culture, a moving society and has its roots in the remotest History.