The authors are all authorities on the subject, and are based at the following institutions: Lena Bjerregaards, Center of Textile Research, University of Copenhagen; Sophie Desrosiers, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris; Beatriz Devia Castillo, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá; Penelope Dransart, Trinity Saint David, University of Wales; Elise Dufour, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris; Peter Eeckhout, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Christine Giuntini, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Nicolas Goepfert, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris; Ann H. Peters, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Elena Phipps, World Arts and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, California; and Ann P. Rowe, Indigenous Latin American Textiles, Textile Museum, George Washington University Museum, Washington, DC.