Woven cloth bag with a front flap and strap. Fabric is a hand-woven cotton in which the warps are thinner and more tightly twisted than the loosely-twisted, slubby wefts. Wide stripes in each direction are interrupted occasionally with very narrow ones of 2 warps or wefts each. The vertical stripes are accented with insertions of discontinuous weft which is very thick and raised.
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 complementary warps, stripes of twill weave, with discontinuous supplementary wefts, hand woven
- Pages
- H x W x D (as 3-D object): 45.7 x 31.1 x 10.2 cm (18 in. x 12 1/4 in. x 4 in.) H x W (flat): 48.9 x 38.1 cm (19 1/4 in. x 15 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 2013-32-1
- Rights
- Gift of the Cristobal Zanartu Family, Paris
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/0ffe4a4d36340adf8710aeea3f81ef77
