These handwovens are among some of the beautiful things brought back from Jeff’s trip to Machu Picchu, cloth woven at the Center For Traditional Textiles of Cusco (click and read more about the mission of the Center!)
I find it intriguing and so endearing that these woven items have tags which include pictures, names & birth dates of the weavers!
But I find it even more intriguing that these two weavers share the same birth year, and that this year is the very same as my own, and believe me, I seem to be the only one who finds this to be an uncommon coincidence. Oh, but just look at the weave, detail….
By the way, Jeff has come back fit as a fiddle, and the three of them had a wonderful time. I can’t believe it is now already two weeks since he was in the middle of the epic trek along the Camino Inca, and I was in a frenzy knitting, pattern writing, and submitting the designs ~~ so perfectly timed was the Camino Inca Chullo submitted when he arrived in Cusco, and the Camino Inca Ponchito when he was actually at Machu Picchu~~ like the ancient Incas, maybe, and the suns rays, I put so much significance in these events to be coinciding simultaneously.
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I have a photo shoot on the calendar for beginning of June with my nieces, where these latest Camino Inca ponchitos will be modeled and I can’t wait to come back and show them off!
My brother has for decades worn this authentic Peruvian hat, the Incan motifs have become signature shapes on his head, almost like fiberous tattoos…
What has been bound together while knitted for the last three weeks,
I see no reason not to post a sneak preview at what I’ve been working very laboriously on, since its first mention 
