Fragment: Textile Item Number: 3263/10 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Irregularly shaped woven fragment with numerous triangles extending from all edges. Textile background is white, darkening to brown towards the bottom edge. Interlocked, zigzagging stepped pattern across entire surface. Done in light blue-green, darkening to dark green-blue towards the bottom edge. Small vertical rectangles throughout main design. Horizontal hourglass-like shape in centre of main design. Textile stitched to cream coloured fabric, secured to off-white matboard.
Possibly a fragment of a mantle (shawl); Ica style.
Done in a warp-faced plain weave with discontinuous dovetailed warps and discontinuous interlocked wefts.
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.