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Quispe's Huari design rug with a border added

The Huari designs that Wilber Quispe Huaman weaves today have their origins in a culture that is over a thousand years old. Pre-dating the Incan city of Machu Picchu by over 500 years, the ancient capital of the Huari culture stood near Ayacucho, the artist’s present-day home in the Andes.

The Huari were believed to have developed terraced field agriculture in this hemisphere, which seems to be echoed in the stylized zig-zag design of Quispe’s rugs. Moreover, the Huari have produced some of the finest hand-woven textiles the world has ever seen. A few surviving examples can be seen at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C......

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