Loincloth Panel

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Culture

Chancay

Title

Loincloth Panel

Place

Peru (Object made in)

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Made 1000–1476

Medium

Cotton and wool (camelid), band of plain weave; center of three-color complementary weft weave; tabs of slit tapestry weave with eccentric wrapping outlining wefts; joined with wool, cross knit loop stitches to twined warp extended weft cut fringe

Dimensions

22.2 × 40.6 cm (8 3/4 × 16 in.)

Credit Line

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment

Reference Number

1955.1796

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