Inca textiles: Did you mean...?

Pachacamac, located on the coast of Peru and 32 km south of Lima, was an important sacred site, oracle, and place of burial, which was visited by pilgrims of many ancient Andean cultures, including the Incas. The site, active for over 2,000...

Traditional Bhutanese handwoven textiles.

The Inca civilisation flourished in Peru and surrounding areas between 1400 and 1533 CE. Prior to the Inca being dominant in Western South America, the Chimu occupied the area until 1470 when the Inca defeated them. The Inca, which started...

A statue of Inca ruler Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (r. 1438-71 CE) in Plaza de Armas, Cuzco, Peru

The Inca Empire (c. 13th–16th century CE) expanded from a small highland kingdom centered in Cusco into the largest pre-Columbian empire in the Americas. Emerging under leaders such as Manco Cápac and later consolidated by Pachacuti Inca...

An Inca royal tunic with the typical geometrical designs and colours favoured by Inca weavers. (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collections, Washington D.C.)

The standard military tunic of the Inca civilization, c. 1400 and 1533 CE. In Inca art black represented death and red represented blood and conquest. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.)

An Inca textile bag with typical tassle decoration. (Lombards Museum)

A detail from an Inca textile showing a geometric cross design. (Museo de America, Madrid)

For three years, a research team from the British Museum, the University of Reading, Royal Holloway University of London and the Universidad Nacional de San Cristobal de Huamanga set out to discover how the Inca Empire used a stone platform...