Textile
date: label: Date
content: 1400–1550
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Headcloth, tabby (imitating netting), with embroidery. In shape of square, except for a section on one corner. Pieced. Very open weave resembling netting with large square meshes; in fine what creped cotton. Design: stylized cat heads projecting from long double diagonals embroidered on to the meshes in the same white cotton, with a thicker cotton bunched and knotted here and there to indicate eyes and mouth. Warps and wefts both used double, with one of the wefts in each pair looping itself around each interlacing, then continuing in the same direction as before. This weft-action gives the look of netting.
place: label: made in
content: Peru
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-172-2
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: embroidered on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 75 × 70.2 cm (29 1/2 × 27 5/8 in.)