Art Institute of Chicago
Headcloth
ChancayLinkedCulture matchlcp-02d86ff18499
- Date
- 1000-1476
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; tie dyed
- Culture
- Peruvian Central Coast
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 152937
Although this headcloth looks like a gauze from afar, it is actually a much simpler plain weave. Rather than invest time in weaving the sheer fabric, its maker focused on creating its circular patterns by tying off small sections of the cotton cloth and dyeing it. The technique is similar to making a modern tie-dyed T-shirt but executed at a much smaller scale. Chancay weavers on the coast likely inherited this technique from their ancestors in the Andean highlands, weavers of the Wari Empire, who created elaborately tie-dyed, alpaca-fiber tunics in much brighter colors.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Frank B. Hubachek
- Provenance
- Jean and Chela Goriany, Lima, Peru [this and the following according to letter from Frank B. Hubacheck, Mar. 25, 1976; copy in curatorial object file]; to Frank B. Hubacheck, Chicago, from 1960s to 1976 [incoming receipt RX10655, July 6, 1976; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976.
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- Object type
- AAT300014063
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