After the Military Museum I dragged everyone to the Museo de Traje, or the Clothing Museum. Kind of like most things in Colombia it was more like a little county museum in Wyoming than a national museum. It was a beautiful colonial building though.
I really enjoyed it despite that, although I was probably the only one.
The Amazonian tribes have some interesting costumes.
I think the different forms of weaving and frames are so fascinating.
I had no idea that cotton was developed independently in different parts of the world. And the oldest examples of cotton production are actually from Mexico, over 4,000 yrs before what's been found in Pakistan and Egypt. So yeah, indigenous tribes in Colombia were weaving and wearing cotton clothes (they didn't rely on wool like the Inca) long before Christopher Colombus came to the Americas.
Monserrate looking especially pretty that day.
This was an old private chapel to the original colonial home owners that has been restored.
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