Sample of a hand woven cotton plaid with a slightly slubbed texture. Warp has wide bands of purple and bright pink with narrow stripes of orange; weft has wide bands of burnt orange and olive with narrow stripes of turquoise.
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, mercerized cotton Technique: plain weave, hand-woven
- Pages
- H x W: 21.9 x 22.9 cm (8 5/8 in. x 9 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 2013-32-5-2
- Rights
- Gift of the Cristobal Zanartu Family, Paris
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/9ac19cc5a3f08835f24fb138ce00b39c
