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1997.2.33

Woman's rectangular shawl

1997.2.33

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Collection type
Object
Description
Woman's rectangular shawl
Long description
Woman's rectangular shawl made from a complete textile with all four selvages present. Terminal area towards one end. Warp faced plain weave. Brown ground with narrow plain warp stripes in blue, pink, red, green, black and white, and broader bands of complementary warp patterning ('pebble weave') in white, red and blue. Diamond and other geometric motifs. The warps of the brown ground alternate in their direction of spin, giving a subtle textured effect (cf 1997.2.37). The use of lluq'i (backward spun) yarn has a protective function in some areas (Meisch 1986:249-250). Probably alpaca. Warp spin Z2S, S2Z; complementary warp Z2S; weft Z2S; warp count 56 epi (22/cm); weft count 15 ppi (7/cm).
Geographical reference
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Peru
near Cuzco
Cultural groups
Quechua
Person
Field collector Robin Woodhouse
PRM source Robin Woodhouse
PRM source Paula Woodhouse
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1975
Date collected
1974 - 1975
Acquisition information
Donated: 1996
Materials and processes
Material Alpaca Wool Camelid Textile Animal, Process Woven
Dimensions
Length x Width 840 x 870 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1997.2.33 Other numbers: L11
Research and responses

For a list of the works consulted by Linda Mowat while cataloguing this collection, see RDF. [JC 26 8 2013]

Search terms: Clothing, Shawl

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