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.