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Their textiles do not only play a useful function but
also for monetary exchange.
In the coloring predominate their animal natural colours:
brown, grey, white and black. To obtain a variety of
colours, they used, since antiquity, plants and minerals
to dye their wool. The dying technics are natural, allowing
firmness in its colours. Nowdays these technics are
almost obsolete, being replazed by industrial anilines
from Bolivia.
The confection of textiles works with tedious and complex
technics. The elaboration process begins obtaining the
animal´s hair (Tarwa) by shearing animals (Alpacas,
Llamas and sheep) that is maked with knifes or tinplate
pieces. Finnally they select the fiber according to
its type, quality and colours.
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