Quechua four-stake ground-loom calendar belt weaving and fine multi-needle chullo knitting on Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca.
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On Taquile Island, men knit tightly gauge-tensioned chullo earflap caps whose iconography indicates marital and civic responsibility, while women weave wide chumpi agricultural calendar belts on four-stake pre-Hispanic ground looms. 1
Proclaimed a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage by UNESCO in 2005 and inscribed on the Representative List in 2008. 1
