Detail View: The AMICA Library: Textile Band

AMICA ID: 
CMA_.1953.475
AMICA Library Year: 
2002
Object Type: 
Textiles
Creator Nationality: 
North American; Central American; Mesoamerican
Creator Name-CRT: 
Peru, South Coast, Nasca style (100 BC-AD 700)
Title: 
Textile Band
Title Type: 
Primary
View: 
Detail
Creation Date: 
100 BC-700
Creation Start Date: 
-100
Creation End Date: 
700
Materials and Techniques: 
interlocking warp and weft, single interlock: wool
Classification Term: 
Textiles
Dimensions: 
Overall: 181cm x 21.6cm
AMICA Contributor: 
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 
1953.475
Credit Line: 
Gift of John Wise
Rights: 
Context: 

This band's intense color and spider-web sheerness are remarkable. Both were achieved with a complex weaving technique developed nowhere else in the world. Each color area is essentially a small, independent textile linked to surrounding color areas through weaving rather than sewing, a puzzling feat that we do not yet completely understand. The image repeated in each of the band's rectangles is equally baffling-two little feet descend from an odd, head-like form.

Related Image Identifier Link: 
CMA_.AM20020496.tif