Waldorf Students Create Peruvian Textile

SARATOGA SPRINGS — At the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs, 6th graders collaborated on a life-sized reproduction of a Peruvian textile in recognition of both Indigenous People’s Day and Hispanic Heritage Month.

They worked together to use a grid-transfer technique to copy the image onto large paper and then painted the geometric pattern with red and black paint. The original, vintage textile is an example of a Peruvian poncho, which would have been a wearable work of art.