Wool rug, 'Light and Shadow' (4x5)

by NOVICA

Product Features

• Handmade by David Laura Zanabria
• Ships from Peru within 10 days
• Dry clean only
• Signed by the artist
• Artificial dyes

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds
• ASIN: B0009G50GY

Product Description

NOVICA, in association with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-kind gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by master artists and artisans throughout the world. Subtly shading tones from light to shadows, David Laura Zanabria weaves an enchanting rug. Its precise geometry is softened by the mesmerizing colors. Working on the Andean handloom, he transforms virgin wool into a rug of dramatic beauty. Titled "Panpa chaki" (Dry Earth) in Quechua. Artisan Info: Coming from a family with a long tradition of handicrafts, David Laura is an artisan in textiles. He was born in in 1945 in a highland city that, along with being the cradle of superior pottery, also possesses enormous prestige for its exuberant textile art represented in tapestries and rugs of singular design and color. With his family, David has a workshop dedicated to textiles, making his own name and reputation in this branch of Peruvian art. "My grandparents and parents were textile artisans, having cultivated this art from their predecessors, so my formation was essentially learned through observation. Nevertheless I have taken textile courses on various occasions. My work deals with resuscitating our ancestral culture and linking it to the present while at the same time fulfilling a longing that I feel. I work in my workshop with my family and it is a full-time dedication. Through my art I want to reveal the Andean people and our capacity to redeem the past. "In my work I employ