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Inca culture Peruvian, Peru

Tapestry Panel, 1600s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Inca culture

Title

Tapestry Panel

Year

1600s

Medium

Alpaca wool (weft) and cotton (warp) interlocked tapestry weave; four-selvedge technique

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • wool,
  • cotton

Techniques

  • interlocked tapestry

Dimensions

120.7 cm (47 1/2 inches) (length)

Place

Peru

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Bequest of Martha B. Lisle

Object Number

67.435

About

Textile artists working under state patronage during the Inka empire (1438–1533) reached extraordinary levels of refinement. This was especially true of cotton interlocked-tapestry-weave textiles, used primarily for ceremonial garments. The Spanish conquest of the Inka in 1532 ultimately led to the decline of this weaving tradition while immeasurably enriching the Spanish colonizers, who exerted violence on indigenous populations and stripped natural resources for their own profit.

This panel, produced in Peru in the 1600s under Spanish patronage, merges old and new design vocabularies. Plant, animal, and fish motifs typical of Inka culture intermingle with images of a man in Spanish dress playing a guitar and a woman in Andean clothing. The border evokes the floral designs on Spanish lace, with the addition of Andean birds.

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Projects & Publications

Publications

A World of Costume and Textiles

A Handbook of the Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A World of Costume and Textiles

September 22 - November 12, 1989

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Tapestry Panel with the accession number of 67.435. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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