Details
Title: woven cloth
Date created: before 2000
Accession number: ITC 2012.167
Place of creation: Associated with Asia - Kashmir - Varanasi
Cultural origin: South East Asia
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/nr2qb7qb
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/668297
Collection group(s): International Textile Collection
Description
This long piece of narrow cloth appears to be a repeat of three identical sections connected by unused warp threads. It would suggest that the three sections woven on the same warp are intended to function as separate items of some 140 cm in length.
The single warp is natural colour, In addition, there are three paired warp groups, each having five warp threads in each half of the pair. The distance between the grouped warps in each pair is 1.5 cm. They are situated on both selvedges 1cm from the edge, and straddle the midline of the piece.
Where the weft threads are natural in colour, there is a 3 over 1 basket weave. Where the weft threads are coloured, there is a 2 over 1 basket weave.
Geometric patterns are worked in green, yellow and brown, developed with a supplementary weft of five individual twisted strands, which together remain untwisted. The patterns are reversible.
Part of the Georgina and Raymond Mills Collection.
Physical characteristics
Category: Textile
Technique: Textile - Woven - Handwoven
Measurement details: Height is estimated: 452 x 33 cm
Accession details
Accession number: ITC 2012.167
Accession date: 24/10/2012
Source: Gift
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