I am happy to say that i ws able to return to Slasaca eighteen months later to find that Juan had picked up the pattern charts and woven some of the motifs, invented a few of his own and even adapted a design from one of the traditional Salasaca belts to pebble weave. I was thrilled! I then had his brothers asking to be taught . Apparently Juan wouldn’t teach them-this was “his” thing and they were the tapestry floor loom weavers. I didn’t get to catch up with Natalia on this trip as she had taken work in the city. I am amused to think that maybe some tme i the future some anthropologist will besratching his or her head and wondering how pebble weave found its way into Salasacan weaving!
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