In the Aymaras textiles, the complexity and sophistication are amazing if you consider that it were of common knowledge. The knitted fabric are the feminine universe and the braided the masculine one. The technical details and symbolical richness that the fabrics and braides contain were a consecuence from the cattle-Andean thousand year experience and the use given to wool.
Textile elaboration technics are transmited from fathers to sons through generations.
The animal shaped figures and geometrical signs are used by Aymara women in their dresses.
Their are plenty of camelidos, vizcachas, suris and taguas, vegetable and geometrical motives, like the spiral or the double spiral that refers to their mysthical being and the world vision of their culture.