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Redeeming Pieter Coecke van Aelst's Gluttony Tapestry: Learning from Scientific Analysis
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      History of Textiles, Tapestry
“Redeeming Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s Gluttony tapestry: A case-study of lessons learnt from scientific analysis”, MMA Journal, 49 (2014), pp.151-164
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      Textile Conservation, Tapestry, Ancient Dyes Analysis and Textiles Conservation, Scientific Research
Differing Interpretations of the authenticity of an Ushak carpet from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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    • Islamic textiles and carpets
The Abduction of Helen, Uncovering the Technical Features of a Monumental Embroidery Hanging from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An Andean Colonial Woman’s Mantle: the New World and its Global Networks.
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Tracing Cochineal Through the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum
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Investigation of a Colonial Latin American Textile
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Woven to Shape: a Pre-Columbian Trapezoidal Tunic from the South Central Andes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Garcilaso and the Uncu: Observations on Dress and Identity among the Inca
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    • Literary studies
Cochineal Red: The art history of a color
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      History of Textiles, Natural Dyes and their applications
Woven Silver and Gold: Metallic Yarns in Colonial Andean Textiles
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      Andean studies: colonial society, Andean textiles
Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork 1530-1830
You can download the full publication high res freely from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website. See link
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      Colonial Latin American History, Colonial Textiles of South America
New Textiles in a New World: 18th Century Textile Samples from the Viceregal Americas.
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      History of Textiles, Colonial Latin American History, Manila Galleon, Early Modern Trade
Tornesol' : a Colonial synthesis of European and Andean textile traditions
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Technical Report on the Adeline Harris Sears Autograph Quilt
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    • Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Great Cloth Burial at Cahuachi, Nasca Valley, Peru
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      History of Textiles, Nasca culture, Peruvian textiles, Arqueologia nasca
The AXSU of Atahualpa's Wife
Extraordinary garment in the Museo Nacional in Colombia. The attached is the one page published version, joined with the original text version
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      Inca Archaeology, Incas, Peruvian textiles, Pre-Columbian, Inca, Andes, Peru, South America, Archaeology, Anthropology
Aspects of Nobility: Colonial Andean Uncus and Their Inca Models. Hali Magazine Issue 167, 2011
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      Colonial Andes, Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion, Inca textiles
Cumbi to Tapestry :Collection, Innovation and Transformation of the Colonial Andean Tapestry Tradition
Chapter from COLONIAL ANDES 2004 Publication.
This is a low res pdf but the whole book can be downloaded in high res from the Metropolitan Museum website.
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      Colonial Latin American History, Tapestry, Colonial Andes
Garments and Identity in the Colonial Andes.pdf
This is a pdf of the essay in the COLONIAL ANDES: TAPESTRIES AND SILVERWORK 1530-1830, MMA 2004.
The entire book can be downloaded from the MMA website in a higher res version.
See link.
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      Colonial Latin American History, Andean textiles, Colonial Andes