Continuous Threads: Prestige and Identity in Latin America –– Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/continuous-threads-prestige-and-identity-in-latin-america
November 10, 2012 – March 25, 2013 | Gallery 255 | Free Exhibition The history of woven textiles as a highly regarded, refined art form in Latin America spans 12 millennia. Physical evidence includes fragments of cloth and rope found in a Peruvian cave dating to about 10,000 BCE, and pieces of woven cords and mats made by the Olmec between 2,500 and 1,200 BCE along the Gulf Coast of Mexico
Weaving cooperatives have been formed to preserve and pass on to future generations