About This Artwork

Lambayeque
Probably north coast, Peru

Fragment, A.D. 1000/1476

Cotton, plain weave; resist dyed; edged with cotton and wool (camelid), slit tapestry weave with supplementary weft loop pile; couched; appliquéd with cotton, slit tapestry weave with extended weft cut fringe; embroidered with cotton in interlaced running stitches
65.4 x 27 cm (25 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1955.1681