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. Ivory and ochre warps; ivory 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 Technique: plain weave with paired warps, hand woven
- Pages
- H x W: 22.2 x 23.8 cm (8 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 2013-32-4-1
- Rights
- Gift of the Cristobal Zanartu Family, Paris
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/18040e503a385baa6905c555de7bd8cd
