Qero Paqo's Suyu -Two Panel Unkuna Textile Inner Cloth (WSU-12)

Tawantinsuyu, Unkuna, Wachala or Inner cloth is a name given to a cloth that is used in rituals and ceremonies for blessings, prayers or holding medicine wheel students sacred objects and personal transformations. As a sacred cloth to wrap & hold sacred objects & stones/kuyas. Put inside a mesa representing your inner world, while the mesa cloth represents your outer world. Also use for client work, placing on a chakra before working, creating a sacred altar to come too are just some of its uses. Peruvian Q'ero Unkuna or otherwise known as a Wachala or Despacho Cloth are hand made traditionally by the Q'ero shamans that live in Peru high in the Andes mountains. To add to there authentic feel some of these are aged due to being used in ceremony by the shamans. Sometimes showing small use but adding to the overall feel. Please see other options as picture shows true illustration. For perfect condition, see shaman archetype watchalas.Uses: Put inside your mesa cloth for holding khuyas, represents inner world. While the Mesa cloth represents the outer world. Despacho or Altar cloth, holding sacred items. The cloths are used by the mountain shaman in ceremony. These cloths are sourced from the Pagos Qero medicine people high up in the Andes of Peru. Hand Woven from naturally dyed sheep wool by the Q'ero community these cloths are made with great symbology, meaning and intent. The cloths are used in a variety of ways, for rituals and ceremonies including holding sacred objects, stones/kuyas, becoming great altars holding an individuals power and gifts as they transform going around the medicine wheel. Personal power objects are held as the representation of ones transformation and placed in the cloth which is usually held by a larger mesa/mestana cloth. NB- This picture is darker than the cloth by 2 - 3 shades. Think of the brown and grey more subtle with the kauchi/rainbow still as rich! Beautiful Andean handmade textile can be used as a display,altar, inner cloth as a personal mesa. Made in Andean cosmology in sacred geometry this cloth could also be used for divination. Two panel cloth woven as one bring in the energy of two, relationship, and balance in harmonious and creative ways. If you are working with this energy in your life, or are wanting more balance, this cloth will be great to work with. Edged with the eye's of protection, held in both half's by the rainbow, which in Quechuan, language of the Q’ero, “Kuichi” is the term for rainbow bridge said to bridge the worlds. Symbolically, brightly coloured offering great transformations. Design: Suyu -Two Panel Cloth, woven as one. Edged with protective eye's and with the rainbow to bring balance in all. Commonly used as an inner cloth inside a mestana cloth meaning inner world held by your outer world a larger cloth. Traditionally spun, woven and hand dyed using 100% natural high quality sheep fine wool naturally dyed. Size approx : 400mm 16" X 410mm 16". Please allow 3% tolerance =/- for size and colouration). Origin: Peruvian High Andes. To aid in organizing your world and working on your energetic foundation. Perfect as an inner cloth to your medicine bundle, or for use in divination. Hand woven, all natural sheep’s wool and fine alpaca wool that's naturally dyed and hand woven. Your purchase of these Fair Trade textiles allows entire villages to maintain the life, culture and dignity in their ancestral homes.