Textile art is an extremely important medium among Andean cultural manifestations. The burials found on the southern desert coasts of Peru and northern Chile present funerary offerings in organic materials, including grave goods with weaving tools and fabrics with bright colors and extremely varied technical and iconographic solutions, in which the deceased is wrapped and accompanied in the afterlife.
The oldest needle-woven textile finds made of plant fibers found testify that the Andean populations had knowledge of spinning and weaving since 8.000 BC. Rectangular fragment of Paracas fabric made of natural cotton with balanced linen, part of a funerary item. The diagonal stem-stitch embroidery, in camelid fiber on a dark brown background, depicts two overlapping bat demons in flight. The figures are made one in red and the other in black-green, with eyes and mouth embroidered with yellow and red thread. The fabric is not double-sided.