Wall art Amazonia
These iconographic textiles come from the Iskonawa people, a small ethnic group that live around the Ucayali region, near the Callería river, with only about 25 people identifying themselves as speaking the Iskonawa language. The designs are hand-painted using the yacoshapana bark and riverside clay. The bark used as their base color for their textile arts come from the hardwood tree called ‘yacushapana’ (family: Combretaceae) which can grow up to 35m high and 1m in diameter. They then peel the cambium layer off the tree which then gets sundried in order to prepare it for the dye. After some hours of boiling the bark with some banana husk the pigment is ready for use onto the ‘tocuyo;’ a 100% natural cotton cloth industrially made in Peru. Each artisan applies their own designs and colors onto the cloth with a combination of other natural pigments and riverside clay.
Handmade. Ecofriendly. Community based production. Limited edition.
L145cm width 135cm.
This wall art comes unframed. You will have to get it framed by a professional.
These iconographic textiles come from the Iskonawa people, a small ethnic group that live around the Ucayali region, near the Callería river, with only about 25 people identifying themselves as speaking the Iskonawa language. The designs are hand-painted using the yacoshapana bark and riverside clay. The bark used as their base color for their textile arts come from the hardwood tree called ‘yacushapana’ (family: Combretaceae) which can grow up to 35m high and 1m in diameter. They then peel the cambium layer off the tree which then gets sundried in order to prepare it for the dye. After some hours of boiling the bark with some banana husk the pigment is ready for use onto the ‘tocuyo;’ a 100% natural cotton cloth industrially made in Peru. Each artisan applies their own designs and colors onto the cloth with a combination of other natural pigments and riverside clay.
Handmade. Ecofriendly. Community based production. Limited edition.
L145cm width 135cm.
This wall art comes unframed. You will have to get it framed by a professional.
These iconographic textiles come from the Iskonawa people, a small ethnic group that live around the Ucayali region, near the Callería river, with only about 25 people identifying themselves as speaking the Iskonawa language. The designs are hand-painted using the yacoshapana bark and riverside clay. The bark used as their base color for their textile arts come from the hardwood tree called ‘yacushapana’ (family: Combretaceae) which can grow up to 35m high and 1m in diameter. They then peel the cambium layer off the tree which then gets sundried in order to prepare it for the dye. After some hours of boiling the bark with some banana husk the pigment is ready for use onto the ‘tocuyo;’ a 100% natural cotton cloth industrially made in Peru. Each artisan applies their own designs and colors onto the cloth with a combination of other natural pigments and riverside clay.
Handmade. Ecofriendly. Community based production. Limited edition.
L145cm width 135cm.
This wall art comes unframed. You will have to get it framed by a professional.
