Border Fragment

Title	Border Fragment
Artist	Chancay Central coast, Peru
Date	1000-1476
Medium	Cotton and wool (camelid), bands of plain weave, slit tapestry weave with wrapping outlining wefts, and three-color complementary weft weave; edged with plain weave extended weft loop fringe
Classification	weaving
Origin	Peru

Themes: Entomological plates

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“Border Fragment” is a work by Chancay Central coast, Peru, dated 1000-1476. It is executed in cotton and wool (camelid), bands of plain weave, slit tapestry weave with wrapping outlining wefts, and three-color complementary weft weave; edged with plain weave extended weft loop fringe and classified as weaving. In this archive it sits within the entomological plates tradition. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).

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