Fragment
date: label: Date
content: 12th–14th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragment, irregularly cut, showing small-scale highly abstract polychrome pattern of cats, geometric shapes and dots on buff ground. Ground is of tightly S-spun undyed weft which is used only where color is needed, interlacing back and forth in color area with "weft onlay" since pattern weft does not enter teh shed of the ground weft. Loom ending at top of fragment, one selvage on right side.
place: label: made in
content: Peru
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-33-2
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton, wool Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29.3 x 19 cm (11 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.)