Like the textile tradition of the Peruvian island of Taquile, inscribed in 2008 on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Peruvian weaving is seen by local populations and tourists alike as a central element of the country’s heritage. However, only a “pre-Hispanic” part of textile production has really been heritagized, to the detriment of a whole range of “a-patr...