SPECIAL PROGRAMS

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We offer you special programs on Andean culture, combined with festivities, excursions and stays in andean communities.

2026 PROGRAMS

JULY

SUMMER PROGRAM

TEXTILE ART AND CULTURE

July 12th – 25th, 2026

This program offers textile learning from a transversal approach. The participants are trained in the pallay technique. The program includes theoretical sessions, which allows to learn about the sociocultural background of textiles. Likewise, immersion in the pompous mamacha Carmen festivity in Pisac is part of the program.

OCTOBER

INTENSIVE ANDEAN TEXTILE ART COURSE: THE WORLD OF PALLAY

Weaving Classes – Semiology – Mythology – Pre-Columbian Textile Art

October 11th – 24th, 2026

The Andean civilizations´ textile art is one of the most complex in the world. Today, a diversity of techniques, applied in an immense variety of textiles, is being put into practice in high Andean communities. This two-week program offers a textile learning in a multidisciplinary way.

Practical Areas

  • Weaving on Backstrap and Pallay

Lectures y Expositions

  • The Accha Alta Community’s Textile Tradition: Tecniques, Iconography and Symbolism
  • Documentary Moovies

Seminars

  • Semiology of Andean Textiles: Iconographic interpretation
  • Astronomy and Cosmology in Archaeological Textiles
  • Mythology and Ritual in Andean Textiles

Workshops

  • Natural Dyeing
  • Handling the Andean drop spindle (Puska) and Thread Twisting

Field Experiences

  • Staying and Weaving in an Indigenous Community