Fragment, Medium: cotton, wool Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade), Fragment, irregularly cut, showing small-scale highly abstract polychrome pattern of cats, geometric shapes and dots on buff ground. Ground is of tightly S-spun undyed weft which is used only where color is needed, interlacing back and forth in color area with 'weft onlay' since pattern weft does not enter teh shed of the ground weft. Loom ending at top of fragment, one selvage on right side., Peru, 12th–14th century, woven textiles, Fragment

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