- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Woman's rectangular shawl
- Long description
- Woman's rectangular shawl made from two complete textiles stitched together edge to edge with the terminal areas at opposite ends of the garment. Each textile has a ground of dark brown warp-faced plain weave,bordered with blue-green warp stripes and bands of complementary warp patterning in light browns and green. The blue-green borders have alternate pairs of blue-green and white warps, giving a very subtle striped effect. Dark brown weft. Fine old example. Natural dyes. Alpaca. Warp spin Z2S; complementary warp Z2S; weft Z2S; warp count 68 epi; weft count 18 ppi.
- Cultural groups
- Quechua
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1800-1899?, uncertain Date made: 1800-1809?, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1974 - 1975
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1996
- Materials and processes
- Material Alpaca Wool Camelid Textile Animal, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Length x Width 810 x 940 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1997.2.36 Other numbers: L9
- Research and responses
For a list of the works consulted by Linda Mowat while cataloguing this collection, see RDF. [JC 26 8 2013]
1997.2.36
Woman's rectangular shawl
1997.2.36
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