The ancient Inca were a textile society and thus skilled in working with natural fibers including alpaca and cotton. Still, it might surprise people today that their solution to crossing the canyons ...

NEWTOWN BOROUGH >> Newtown Friends Meeting will feature an award-winning documentary about the last handwoven Inca suspension bridge in Peru by Candido Rodriguez, Newtown Quaker Meeting member, ...

View post: I Traded Nashville for This High-End Sanctuary in the Heart of Dublin—and It Was the Ultimate Palate Cleanser This bridge is woven anew each year in the second week of June. Image by ...

The Q'eswachaka is made out of ichu, a grass endemic to the Andean highlands. For more than 500 years, the local people have kept this tradition of ancient technology alive. Every year in June, the ...

A suspension bridge made of twisted plant fibers stretches high above the Apurimac River in Peru. Local residents, descendants of the Inca, have been making bridges like this for some 500 years.

YOU DON’T WEIGH too much, do you?” Those were the words of a woman behind me as our group of five nervously stepped onto an Inca suspension bridge swaying high over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes, ...