Arpillera from Arte, Mujer y Memoria: Arpilleras from Chile at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) On September 11, 1973 Chile’s ...

Photograph of an arpillera made by Zuni Alfaro. Comunidad de Arpilleristas de la Región Metropolitana An Arpillerista is a woman who creates embroidered textile pieces from fabric scraps and various ...

Signs read (top to bottom): “Election registry,” “All together” and “Yes to full democracy.” Created by an unknown/unidentified Chilean woman. Photo courtesy of The William Benton Museum of Art ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Many of the people who ...

From left to right, Valentina Ocampo, Cinthia Carvajal, Adilia De La Llana and Kristen Acosta hold arpilleras made during the Threading Resistance workshops. Ocampo, Carvajal, and De La Llana will be ...

The documentary "Arpilleras: embroidering resistance" will tell the stories of five women affected by dams in five Brazilian regions. Entire lives flooded by the development discourse. The narratives, ...

Hi, it's me again, Artzy. Fasten your seatbelts, because we're off for another adventure. This time we're headed to Peru, a country in South America that is known for hand-sewn, three-dimensional ...

The city of Lota, Chile, may not have much significance from an outsider’s perspective, but the art created by the women of the Biobío region gives rich historical context through narratives of ...