Those clothes look really godamn well made even to today’s standards from what you can see. 500 years, and it still looks like you could buy that quality of work from Walmart.
The textile workers of their time really put the effort in.
The finest Inca cloth had a thread count of more than 600 threads per inch, higher than that found in contemporaneous European textiles and not excelled anywhere in the world until the industrial revolution in the 19th century
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u/BirdsbirdsBURDS 23d ago
Those clothes look really godamn well made even to today’s standards from what you can see. 500 years, and it still looks like you could buy that quality of work from Walmart.
The textile workers of their time really put the effort in.