Labyrinth Mola Panel
Unknown Artist
before 1960
Medium
Cotton; reverse appliqué, appliqué
Dimensions
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Classification
Garment
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Howard A. Aronson
Accession Number
2021.153
About this artwork
This Labyrinth Mola Panel is executed in one of the most prestigious of Guna mola-making techniques. Known as bisu-bisu, it is a geometric maze of evenly spaced lines that create winding paths across the surface and visually dissolve the divide between figure and ground.