Ñandutí, Lace of Paraguay

It happens rarely that a foreign craft is so intensely identified with a region to the extent that it becomes its symbol. However, that is exactly what happened with the old Spanish lace from Extremadura, which in Paraguay even lost its name and was baptized with another that does not corresponds with the concept of its original name: a sun became a spider’s web and in that in long evolutionary process Ñandutí was born.

This process of acculturation is documented and expertly narrated in th...