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Backstrap looms are used by traditional Andean weavers.
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Otavalo Market is one of the best known indigenous markets in the world, and certainly the most popular one in South America. The market is a shopper's paradise of native crafts and textiles
bursting with endless color, patterns, and textures. Traditionally dressed families offer their wares in the market on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, although Otavalo has many shops open all week.
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Artisans from outlying rural communities bring their handicrafts to the town center at dawn to sell to local vendors of Otavalo. By early morning the plaza explodes with color and texture as
woven tapestries, bags, and native clothing mingle with ceramic Inca figures, wood carvings, paintings, and jewelry. The plaza is an ethnic labyrinth of vendors in the traditional dress of Otavalo.
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