EditorialCap, Medium: wool Technique: tapestry woven, single interlock; OUTSIDE FABRIC: tapestry: interlocked; INSIDE FABRIC: single-weft double cloth (warp-faced plain weave)., Two fabrics sewn together (one on the outside, one on the inside - each a loomed wi...
EditorialMantle, Medium: warp: cotton; weft: silk, metallic (silver strips wrapped around linen core) Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry), interlocked Label: silk and metallic tapestry, Mantle decorated with series of broad and narrow hor...
EditorialFragment, Medium: cotton warp, wool weft Technique: tapestry woven, single interlock; subtle use of non-horizontal wefts Label: cotton warp, wool weft, single interlock tapestry with some non-horizontal wefts, Fragment of a mantle with two wide bands o...
EditorialWool Pile?Cap, A.D.?700900, Wool and cotton, square-knotted network with wool pile, 8.3 ? 50.9 cm (3 1/4 ? 20 1/16 in.), Close-fitting, four-cornered caps such as this one were worn by Huari and Tiahuanaco elite males in life and were?interred with the...
EditorialAlphons St?bel at the Portal of the Sun, Tiahuanaco. Date/Period: 1877. Print on albumin paper. Height: 160 mm (6.29 in); Width: 210 mm (8.26 in).