Tunic
1100–1532
- Medium
- white cotton; plain weave with supplementary weft brocading
- Dimensions
- Overall: 57.2 x 151.1 cm (22 1/2 x 59 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Peru, Chimú or Chimú-Inka, 12th-16th century
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.