Textile Item Number: 1067/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

The textile is thin and black with an open weave in a diamond pattern. Some stitches are thicker than others. Originally the textile was square in shape, but a large portion of one corner has deteriorated as well as other areas along the edges.

Narrative

Rosita Tovell's father was a collector of Peruvian pre-Columbian ceramics. Rosita moved to Peru in the early 1960s, while her husband served as ambassador to Peru and Bolivia. During this time Rosita began to study and collect pre-Columbian Peruvian ceramics and textiles.