Qompi: fine Inca tapestry
Cumbi: tapiz fino inca
- Date
- c. 1450 · confidence medium
- Place
- Cusco, Peru
- Credited to
- Specialised Inca weavers (cumbicamayoc, acllas)
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Tapestries of vicuña and alpaca wool with more than 100 weft threads per centimetre, woven identically on both faces. They were worth more than gold in the Inca economy.
What it led to
- textiles as wealth and diplomatic gifts
- tocapus as a system of signs