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‘It’s the first time I’ve woven in 27 years’: Peruvian women revive arts lost to trauma of forced sterilisations
After the death of former president Alberto Fujimori this month, survivors still seeking justice are finding healing and hope in Indigenous weaving abandoned as a result of his policy
- Photographs by Erwan Nicolay-Kritter
Ricardina Huaman Folopa carefully pinches and counts wool threads with her fingers: 87 – the exact number of pairs of threads needed to weave a chumpi, a belt traditionally made by women in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Here, in the Indigenous community of Huayllacocha, south of Machu Picchu, she is part of a quiet revolution taking place.
Ricardina Huaman Folopa didn’t weave for 27 years after her forced sterilisation, as it was too painful for her
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