Tejido santiagueño; the weavers themselves are called teleras; the stake-loom construction is called telar de estaca (also telar criollo)
A hand-loom weaving tradition of Santiago del Estero province, Argentina's oldest continuously inhabited region, in which women (teleras) card, spin, dye, and weave sheep's wool into ponchos, colchas (bedspreads), blankets, table runners, and rugs on a simple stake loom (telar de estaca) built from local timber. Concentrated in the departments of Atamisqui, Loreto, Salavina, and San Martín, and tracing documented archaeological roots to spindle whorls (torteros) dated to 1350 CE, the tradition is transmitted exclusively through women, generation to generation, and was formally registered on Argentina's national inventory of intangible cultural heritage in July 2018.
Risk level: Endangered · Not UNESCO-inscribed; formally registered on Argentina's national inventory of intangible cultural heritage (Manifestaciones del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial) on 10 July 2018, under the entry "Técnica de tejido artesanal en telar de estaca," identified by the Subsecretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Santiago del Estero; the broader teleras santiagueñas tradition was separately declared of provincial and national cultural interest in 2007
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