Cleveland Museum of Art

Piña cloth

Date

mid-1800s

Medium

piña fiber, silk

Culture

Philippines

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This fabric is woven in plain weave using a piña ground with vertical bands of closely spaced silk warp stripes arranged in a repeating pattern. The stripes run the full length of the cloth. Piña is made from the leaves of the pineapple plant, first brought to the Philippines by the Spanish in the sixteenth century.

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