Fragment: Dress Item Number: 3263/24 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a garment. Textile is light brown-white and rectangular in shape. Grid of squares painted overtop entire surface. Squares are divided into two diagonal triangles. Triangles in upper left corner are plain brown-orange. Triangles in lower right have dark brown diagonal lines with perpendicular repeating straights lines extending from the diagonal lines. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Garment was probably a woman's dress.
Collected in Peru before the 1970s by Ina VanStan, a Professor of Textiles and Clothing at the Florida State College for Women (Florida State University) from the 1940s to c. 1966. VanStan later gifted her collection to the donor. A large amount of the donation was used for teaching at the University of Alberta while others were mainly small study fragments.
Done in plain weave.