The sounds and tastes of colours

Hue and saturation in Isluga textiles

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4046813
AutoresPenny Dransart (0000-0003-0438-8586, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, autor de correspondencia), Penelope Dransart
Año2016
Fecha de publicación2016-07-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNuevo mundo mundos nuevos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1626-0252 • E-ISSN: 1626-0252
EditorialOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/nuevomundo.69188
OpenAlexW2469741108
IdiomaEN
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With an emphasis on the concept of hue, this article examines colour qualities in ethnographic textiles from Isluga, in northern Chile, according to ideas concerning synaesthesia and chromaticism. It explores correspondences between light, colours, sound and taste against a historical trajectory in which industrially manufactured yarns bought in the marketplace replaced the dyeing of threads at the homestead. Attention is drawn to notions of saturation and how weavers exploit contrasts of hue, using extensive amounts of naturally coloured camelid fleece and narrow stripes of dyed colours. During much of the twentieth century, Isluga weavers restricted their use of intense colours compared to those used by weavers in other parts of the Andes. This article addresses anthropological theories of colour in the light of weavers’ metaphysical appreciation of the concept of colour saturation as their willingness to incorporate more extensive amounts of bright colours changed. It is based on the author’s fieldwork in Isluga conducted since the mid-1980s

Archaeology · Art · Ethnography · Geography · Hue · Humanities · Optics · Physics · Taste · Chemistry · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · Latin American history and culture · Food Science