To Weave for the Sun: Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

by Rebecca Stone-Miller

$75 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 271, 1 pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over red cloth, with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Color frontispiece. Textiles were the Incas' most prized possessions. Their first gift to European strangers was made not of gold and silver, but of camelid fiber and cotton. They believed that the highest form of weaving was created expressly for the

• Binding: Hardcover

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