On my first visit to Potosi in 1997, I met Ulla, a Danish girl who was staying o in Ptosi after having spent a year there as an exchange student. We learned to weave together with sisters Julia and Hilda. As Ulla didn’t have a patio, she set up an oblique loom in her little apartment and was able to weave comfortably there. It certainly beat having to bend over the grond loom. On her lap, aprt frm the kitten, you can see the “saca” or little woven sample that the weavers use to help them remember how to weave the designs.
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