Sample of hand-woven cotton in which the warps are much thinner and more tightly twisted than the loosely-twisted, irregularly spun wefts, which vary in thickness across their length. Royal blue and red warps; mottled purple wefts.
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, acetate Technique: plain weave with paired warps, hand woven
- Pages
- H x W: 21.6 x 23.5 cm (8 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 2013-32-4-6
- Rights
- Gift of the Cristobal Zanartu Family, Paris
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/ea28738c8b626cc106ba66cf6abe6ff1
