Choque weaving on her loom at home in Pozo Almonte, Chile. — AP Photo
IN northern Chile, Teofila Challapa learnt to weave surrounded by the hills and sandy roads of the Atacama Desert.
“Spin the threads, girl,” her grandmother told her a half a century ago.
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