Sample of a hand woven cotton plaid with a slightly slubbed texture. Warp has wide bands of burnt orange and olive with narrow stripes of fuchsia; weft has wide bands of green and navy with narrow stripes of bright red.
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 22.5 cm (8 5/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 2013-32-5-1
- Rights
- Gift of the Cristobal Zanartu Family, Paris
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/7f632b8f7aec48d8d0cfd0a7a51516b2
