When I was working on Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands back in 2007, author Nilda Callañaupa asked, at the last minute, if we could include a painting done by her brother. Well, the book was all photography and line art, and it was hard for me to imagine how it was a good idea to suddenly […]

I’m just curious. When you pick up a new book, do you read the foreword, or the preface, or any of that stuff in the front? Or do you cut directly to the good stuff? I ask because I’ve been working on the “front matter” of Faces of Tradition: Weaving Elders of the Andes. It’s […]