Fragment: Textile Item Number: 3263/26 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Fragment of a mantle or shroud. Textile is rectangular in shape and has a grid-like design across entire surface, made up of twelve squares. Square backgrounds alternate between light blue-grey and dark blue-grey. Designs of alternating dotted and solid lines inside the squares. Lines done in dark brown, white and grey-pink. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
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 with a warp-faced plain weave and float weave.