A WEAVING REVIVAL
Some people have a profound sense of time running out, which prompts them to get on with things, to not ponder for too long. For Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez, an indigenous Quechua weaver from Chinchero in the Cusco region of Peru, this feeling has driven her from an early age. She remembers an afternoon sitting in her family’s courtyard in Chinchero. She’d just returned from a semester studying textile history in California, reeling from the shock of having suddenly returned to life in rural Peru. She was torn between different worlds and the paths she could take. It soon became apparent that it was weaving that gave her life much coherence. “I realised that I could be who I was: a weaver,” she writes in her book .
