The Paracas Textile is online!
This is one of my favorite textiles ever, and is both beautiful and enormously complex. The needle-looped borders… oh my!
Not bad for something that’s closing in on two millenia old.
Go look for yourself!
string, books, plants, books, string
About the author
Sarah Goslee has been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala's String Page. Science and fiction are located here.Find me all around the Internet: phiala on Ravelry (account required), phialastring on last.fm and LiveJournal (echos this blog), and Phiala on Flickr, LibraryThing, Twitter, and Goodreads.
