Sample of a hand woven cotton plaid with a slightly slubbed texture. Warp has wide bands of royal blue and slate blue with narrow stripes of burnt orange; weft has wide bands of navy blue and black with narrow stripes of violet.
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, hand-woven
- Pages
- H x W: 27.3 x 25.1 cm (10 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 2013-32-5-8
- Rights
- Gift of the Cristobal Zanartu Family, Paris
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/c312d6ff8cab7b3dcd9364c6e4925d4c
