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Ñandutí, which means “Spiderweb” in Guaraní, the native language of Paraguay, is a traditional lace technique.
-Itaugua, Central Paraguay
Spiderweb lace originated in Arabia. According to the book, Paraguay: Touristic and General Information, “it was taken to the Canary Islands and to Spain, and between the 17th and 18th centuries, it was brought to Paraguay, where the so-called sun lace from Tenerife took the name Paraguayan lace, or nanduti.”
Ñandutí, traditional lace technique.
-Itaugua, Central Paraguay
Ñandutí, traditional lace technique.
-Itaugua, Central Paraguay
Ñandutí, traditional lace technique.
-Itaugua, Central Paraguay
Ñanduti Lace Maker
-Itaugua, Central Paraguay
Early 20th Century Migration of German-speaking Russian Mennonites into the Paraguayan Chaco. The first people arrived by way of Canada in the 1920s and the town of Loma Plata was finally founded in 1927. Their economic basis is agriculture, in particular, cattle farming. The colony continues to speak German (Plattdeutsch, or Low German), interchanabely with Spanish.
Dusty Road in Loma Plata
Avenida Central
Mennonite Colony of the Paraguayan Chaco
Vintage Pocket Watch
Loma Plata, The Chaco
New Plans of the Paraguayan Chaco, as settled by the German-speaking Russian Mennonites, early 20th Century.
Vintage Slate
Loma Plata, The Chaco
Vintage Telecmmunication
Loma Plata, The Chaco
Filadelfia (also called Colonia Fernheim), a German-speaking Russian Mennonite colony in the Chaco region of Paraguay.