“So you’ve decided to come down here, slumming.”
The Ancient Ones by David Brin
“On a hill high above the city of Cusco, Peru, Marcela Salas Calcina, a master weaver of ceremonial textiles from the remote village of Q’eros, and her husband Lorenzo, a shaman, make the vertical warp by passing a ball of yarn back and forth as each one wraps the thread on their end of the loom, staked into the ground by four posts.”
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories, by Nicole Nehrig.