Colour in Pre-Columbian Textiles
The colour issue:
How to systematize the colours of textiles found in an archeological site?
The need for a colour-based visual communication system to be implemented within a digital screen in the middle of Atacama desert (North of Chile). The system should allow the correct visualisation of information in that extreme weather environment (during the day, night, fog or “camanchaca” conditions), and for mostly male workers with a high probability of colour blindness among them.
The Solution: A Pre-Columbian Colour Chart
My role: colour consultant, colorimetric measurement and proposal of final colour chart
Date: 2011 – 2012
FONDECYT Regular N°1100914, Chile
Study and methodological proposal for the classification and communication of colours in archaeological textile pieces from the pre-Columbian Andean cultures of northern Chile as representational and identity elements. Carried out together with the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art and the Catholic University of Chile. Main Researcher: Soledad Hoces de la Guardia.
Commissioner: Universidad Católica de Chile & Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino.
