Sample of hand-woven cotton in which the warps are thinner and more tightly twisted than the loosely-twisted, slubby wefts. Wide stripes in each direction are interrupted occasionally with very narrow ones of 2 warps or wefts each. The vertical stripes are accented with insertions of discontinuous weft which is very thick and raised. Brown and black warps; brown wefts; purple and black brocading yarns.
Authors
Sheila Hicks, (American, born 1934), Commonwealth Trust, Calicut, Kerala, India
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Textiles Department
- Dates
- 1965
- Format
- Medium: cotton Technique: plain weave with complementary warps, stripes of twill weave, with discontinuous supplementary wefts, hand woven
- Pages
- H x W: 22.9 x 22.9 cm (9 x 9 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 2013-32-6-1
- Rights
- Gift of the Cristobal Zanartu Family, Paris
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/336726cf59c5cfd1fed4bed68166df40
