Search Demo: Museum Collection

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  Fragment (Peru), before 1500

  Plain tabby. Narrow stripes in several shades of brown.

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  Fragment (Peru), before 1500

  Plain tabby and plain tabby, lancé. Tan tabby with paired interrupted blue pencil-stripes formed by extra wefts, lancé. Loom joined to small piece of much finder tan cotton tabby.

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  Bag Face For A Chuspa (Peru), late 19th century

  Carrying bag made from warp-faced plain weave in alternating stripes. Broad stripes of brown and gray flanking a central stripe with geometric pattern in red and white with two superimposed…

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  Fragment (Peru), before 1536

  On pointed cactus-spine “warps”, red, green, brown and buff wool, with some linen, is wound in tapestry, making rough pattern of small triangles.

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  Bowl (Peru)

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  Beaker (Peru), 400–600

  Concave, flaring sides, and flat bottom. Body covered in white slip and painted with large face of snake with bat headdress, and horizontally displayed body with spiny, curling tail.

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  Vase (Peru), 400–600

  Concave, flaring sides, and rounded bottom, all coated with white slip. On body, two bands, the lower with graded, connected rosettes and pyramids; the upper with two snakes displayed horizontally.

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  Fragment (Peru), 18th century

  White cotton, very soft and fine, with warp ikat pattern on small scale in blue; Y-shaped forms going across fabric. No selvages present.

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  Textile (Peru), 11th–13th century

  On brown linen warps, two rows of abstracted small birds in profile. In pink, magenta, purple, ochre and brown on mustart ground.

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  Textile (Peru), 1400–1550

  Headcloth, tabby (imitating netting), with embroidery. In shape of square, except for a section on one corner. Pieced. Very open weave resembling netting with large square meshes; in fine what…