Large Antique Mesa Cloth #52

The Mesa is the Ancient Andean tradition of the ‘Portable Altar’, central to Ritual and Ceremony.

The cloths are used to house Sacred items… stones, crystals, shells and metals that are worked with in powerful healing rituals. They may also be used as Altar cloths for your home altar or within your own Ceremonies.

Traditionally woven from hand-grown, hand-spun and hand-dyed Alpaca wool, each cloth carries the weaving of a story. Ancient symbols of the lineages of different High Andean communities call forth the guidance, protection and wisdom of the Ancestors, our Apus (Mountains), Pachamama (Mother Earth) and her powerful ally spirits and elemental forces, and the Celestial and Cosmic realms.

This particular Mesa cloth is an exceptionally rare antique piece.

Unlike newly woven Mesa cloths, these precious antique weavings have already lived a long ceremonial life within the Andes. Some potentially carry many decades of history, Ceremony and prayer, passing through hands and lives before eventually finding their way to ours.

A Mesa cloth is already alive with the stories, symbols and prayers woven into its threads, but an antique cloth carries another layer entirely. Having been held, worked with and tended over many years, these cloths carry the accumulated presence of prayer, offering, Ceremony and relationship with the Sacred that has moved through them across their long lives.

Their age can also be felt in their unique character. These antique pieces often carry vibrant colours, unexpected details and embellishments, alongside the beautiful signs of age and use that speak to the life each cloth has already lived. No two are alike.

To receive one is not simply to receive a Sacred weaving… it is to become the next custodian of a ceremonial piece with a history of its own, carrying its medicine and story forward into your own MESA, Ceremony and lineage.

These rare antique cloths are Sacred pieces to cherish and carry with you throughout your life, and perhaps one day pass forward as a gift of your own lineage.

DIMENSIONS 69 x 60cm

This is a one-of-a-kind antique Andean MESA cloth.