The oldest textiles in Peru did not emerge from cotton or camelid wool, but from plant fibers: reed, totora, cabuya, palm, and wild cane. On the central coast, at Chilca, Tres Ventanas, the earliest traces of this tradition were uncovered, including a reed hat woven in rings.
The reed hat seeks to revive this technique, now nearly lost, and its symbolic meanings: weaving outward from the center, forming a concentric, organic structure that grows in circles, unfurls in spirals, and echoes the rhythms of agricultural and astronomical cycles.

MAKER	DAVID GOICOCHEA
TECHNIQUE	WEAVING IN REED
MATERIAL	REED FROM THE HUACHO WETLAND
YEAR	2022