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. Burnt orange and brown warps; hot pink 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: 22.9 x 23.5 cm (9 in. x 9 1/4 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 2013-32-4-5
- Rights
- Gift of the Cristobal Zanartu Family, Paris
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/fc4d86778f457e0f9988f8a92bac0a6b
