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Loom & Dye

Cloth, and the colour put into it. · 5 entries

No.	Object	Material	Technique	Place
001	The backstrap loom Backstrap loom	Wooden beams, cotton or camelid warp	Body tension, shed rod and heddle	Otavalo, Ecuador
002	Cochineal Cochineal dyestuff	Scale insects farmed on nopal cactus	Brushed off, dried, ground, mordanted	Oaxaca, Mexico
003	Indigo and the vat Indigo vat	Indigofera leaf, alkali, fermentation	Reduced in the vat, oxidised in the air	Central America and the Andes
004	Reverse appliqué Mola panel	Layered cotton cloth	Cut down through the stack, edges turned in	Guna Yala, Panama
005	What a pattern tells you Woven motif	Dyed warp and supplementary weft	Pickup brocade, counted in threads	Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Fired earth and worked metal. · 4 entries

No.	Object	Material	Technique	Place
006	Barro negro Black clay vessel	Local clay, quartz burnishing stone	Burnished leather-hard, fired in reduction	Oaxaca, Mexico
007	The open firing Open-fired pot	Unglazed earthenware, wood and dung fuel	Stacked, covered and fired without a kiln	Across the region
008	Silver and the bench Worked silver	Sheet and drawn silver	Raised, chased and soldered at the bench	Taxco, Mexico
009	Filigree Filigree ornament	Silver drawn down to wire	Twisted, coiled and soldered without a ground	Across the region

The crops and what is built on them. · 5 entries

No.	Object	Material	Technique	Place
010	Nixtamal Nixtamalised maize	Dry maize, lime or wood ash, water	Alkaline cooking and steeping, then grinding	Mesoamerica
011	The metate Metate and mano	Vesicular basalt	Pecked from one block, re-roughened as it wears	Mesoamerica
012	Cacao before chocolate Cacao paste	Fermented and dried cacao beans	Roasted, hulled, ground, whisked to a foam	Mesoamerica
013	The potato, in plural Native potato varieties	Andean tubers	Kept apart by field; freeze-dried into chuño	Cusco, Peru
014	The earth oven Earth oven	Fire-heated stones, earth, green leaves	Covered pit, several hours, no direct flame	Across the region

Objects made to be carried and worn. · 3 entries

No.	Object	Material	Technique	Place
015	The carved mask Carved mask	A single block of wood, paint	Cut deep so the features read in movement	Michoacán, Mexico
016	What is carried Processional frame	Timber, cordage, cloth	Built to be shouldered and kept upright	Across the region
017	Papier-mâché and fire Cartonía figure	Paper, paste, a cane armature	Built in quantity, made to be destroyed	Across the region

Instruments, and what they are made of. · 3 entries

No.	Object	Material	Technique	Place
018	The box that became a drum Cajón	Thin resonant face on a box body	Struck by hand at the face, played sitting on it	Lima, Peru
019	Gourd and scraper Güiro	Dried calabash gourd and a scraper	Parallel notches rasped across the shell	The Caribbean basin
020	Strings in miniature Small high-tuned lute	Wooden body, strings in courses	Tuned above the guitar rather than against it	The Andes

The printed and the built record. · 4 entries

No.	Object	Material	Technique	Place
021	The first presses Printed sheet	Rag paper and cast type	Hand press, bilingual composition	Mexico City
022	The courtyard plan Courtyard house	Masonry, timber, glazed tile	Rooms set around one open square	Across the region
023	Tile as cladding Tiled facade	Tin-glazed earthenware	Laid as weatherproofing, not ornament	Puebla, Mexico
024	Concrete and the sun Brise-soleil	Reinforced concrete	Shade cast into the structure of the facade	Brasília, Brazil