Mantle or Hanging
1480–1635
- Medium
- cotton; plain weave, brocaded and complex alternating gauze with 3 or 5 shots of plain weave between gauze shots
- Dimensions
- Overall: 162.5 x 272 cm (64 x 107 1/16 in.); Mounted: 177.8 x 287 cm (70 x 113 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Peru, North Coast, Chimú style, 1200–1460s
About
This garment embodies an important principle of the Chimú textile aesthetic: a love of combining different textures, some dense and sculptural and others so open and airy they are nearly invisible. (The hand-spun yarns are only .1 to .2 millimeters in diameter.) It also elegantly articulates the simplified, spare visual vocabulary that the Chimú favored, here geometric motifs.