Unku
Lecture 04 / The Threaded Empire
Ayacucho, c. 700 CE
A study in compressed abstraction

Woven in authority,
read in darkness.

Eighteen miles of handspun vicuña, interlocked on a dark maroon ground — the staff-god face stretched past recognition, marching down the columns of an imperial unku.

Interlock Tapestry Camelid Weft Square-Row Columns
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