The textile in Cusco is one of the Andean crafts that has subsisted from pre-Hispanic times to the present. While still transforming with the passage of time, it has preserved technical and aesthetic elements that contribute to the traditional dress cusqueño keep very typical features.
The old and basic Andean loom, based simply on the waist of the weaver and on very elementary accessories or stakes nailed to the ground, is still used today. With him some of the garments of the traditional dress are produced, like the chumpi (belt), the lliclla (feminine blanket) and the chuspa (bag), among others.
However, typical clothing is different from the one used in Inca times and does not stop changing, although it retains many elements of its own that even adapt the industrial without necessarily targeting the anonymous urban garments.
Throughout the department of Cusco, in rural areas, it is the woman who remains most attached to the typical Cuscian costume, with many equal elements throughout the region and others that vary from place to place. Her wardrobe is made up of a red industrial dress that contrasts sharply with the black skirt bordered by ribbons of thick wool and varying motifs. In many cases, it is about several skirts overlaid, like a petticoat. Some women wear very colorful handmade jackets. While in all is lliclla, blanket that covers the shoulders, and also the quepirina, piece of cloth used as a loading implement of guaguas or various objects. Although in some areas women wear felt hats, in many others they still wear monteras, that garment of hard structure, lined in fabric, of round or rectangular form and with a slit for the head.
By comparison, in much of Cusco man has left the old Andean clothes, although the peasants keep the poncho, with colors and designs varied according to localities, and the chullo made by themselves with knitting sticks. In some areas, such as in Ollantaytambo and the Qeros community, males still wear black mid-leg pants, a jacket, and a garment vest adorned with ribbons and buttons. In all cases they add the hat of cloth, since the montera has stopped being part of the masculine clothing.
Both women and men use as footwear handmade jejé ojotas; the feminine ones are a little more delicate and they have a small adornment of color above the fingers. Men do not wear socks and women, if they do, wear them long and thick.
This is the daily clothing of the Cuzco peasant. At parties the costume is highlighted by some new or more decorated clothes. For the dances special clothes, often rent, and masks, if the dance requires them, while for the Inti Raymi, the Cuzco brings out elegant ponchos that affirm their local idiosyncrasy.
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