On the first afternoon, I asked to learn tubular bands. I was o absorbed with filming, photographing and noting everything down that I didn’t realize that the first band she taught me was actually pebble weave! Her set up and way of doing the pick-up is so completely different to the way I had been taught in western Peru. It threw me off at first and I got really confused! Fortunately we started with the design which is known in the Cusco area as “mayo k’enko” and hwich Maxima calls “linquito” and so it wasn’t all totally foreign to me and I was then able to pick it up quite quickly. Maxima’s method definitely has its advantages for weaving pebble weave as a finger-tensioned tubular band. .
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