Textile Fragment with Frontal Deity Heads, Felines, and Interlace Pattern
Unknown Artist
700–400 BCE
Medium
camelid fiber; double-cloth with structural embroidery
Dimensions
83.2 × 21.6 cm
Classification
Textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Accession Number
2005.14
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This textile fragment and (2005.13), belong to a group that represents Andean weavers’ earliest known achievements in double cloth, a technique that allows the creation of identical designs on both faces of the cloth but in reversed colors. They also record the devotion to abstraction typical of the Paracas style. One features three repeats of a highly geometrical standing deity with a fanged mouth. The other includes several stylized deity heads and a blocky, frontally posed feline. The type of...