Pre-Spanish Peruvian Ikat
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Junius Bird describes a single pre-Spanish Peruvian ikat textile from the Huaca de la Cruz in the Viru Valley, held by the American Museum of Natural History. He covers its size, construction in five sewn strips, cotton yarn and paired warps, and the warp-ikat pattern of human and bird figures. He analyzes the weaver's miscalculations in the warp counts and the later painted dye, and concludes that ikat was probably not a traditional technique in northern Peru. The article ends with a list of published references to ancient Peruvian ikats, and includes a photograph, pattern-row details and a diagram of the dyed figures.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1947
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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