Fragment
date: label: Date
content: 15th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragment, interlocking eccentric tapestry. Narrow strip of tapestry, in red, black, yellow, brown and white; pattern of two rows of squares. Top row contains naturalistic butterfly, life size, and close arrangement of lotus forms, alternately; bottom row, the same butterflies and a group of geometric shapes set above a mound. On either side of tapestry strip extends all-cotton reps ground, dun-colored, S-spun undyed cotton; wefts: tapestry, polychrome unspun wools, rather fine; ground, very fine thin unspun, undyed cotton. No selvages present. One loom-ending.
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: 1960-33-4
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: wool, cotton Technique: single interlock tapestry
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 23.5 x 29.2 cm (9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.)