Nasca art

The Paracas Textile is online!


Brooklyn Museum: Mantle (

This is one of my favorite textiles ever, and is both beautiful and enormously complex. The needle-looped borders… oh my!


Brooklyn Museum: Mantle (

Not bad for something that’s closing in on two millenia old.


Brooklyn Museum: Mantle (

Go look for yourself!

Welcome!

I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.

I also do some science and write some fiction.

I’m Phiala most places on the internet.