Fragment: Cloth
Item number 3263/20 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
Item number 3263/20 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.
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Fragment of a cloth. Textile is white-brown and square-like in shape. Top edge is uneven. Designs of geometric steps beginning at the bottom edge and going towards the upper portion of the cloth. Steps done in golden brown, light brown, dark red and pink. Fragment is stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Ground cloth done in plain weave with discontinuous supplementary wefts. Ground cloth done in cotton, supplementary wefts done in camelid wool.
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.
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Fragment of a cloth. Textile is white-brown and square-like in shape. Top edge is uneven. Designs of geometric steps beginning at the bottom edge and going towards the upper portion of the cloth. Steps done in golden brown, light brown, dark red and pink. Fragment is stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Ground cloth done in plain weave with discontinuous supplementary wefts. Ground cloth done in cotton, supplementary wefts done in camelid wool.
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.
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