Tassels
500 CE-900 CE
Medium
Wool; (strap), tubular plain weave, patterned in five-color, three-span floats, warp substitution; oblique twill interlacing with paired elements; "cross-knit" looping; plain oblique interlacing with four elements; strips of tubular plain weave double cloth and five-color complementary warp weave with warp substitution; strips of plain weave double cloth and five-color complementary warp weave; oblique twill interlacing with three elements
Dimensions
33.7 × 20.3 cm (13 1/4 × 8 in.)
Classification
textile
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85536
About the Artist
Nasca
Nasca artists, active from approximately 100 BCE to 800 CE along the arid southern coast of Peru in the Rio Grande de Nazca and Ica Valleys, produced some of the most vibrant and technically innovative art of the ancient Americas. Their work emerged from the Paracas tradition, expanding on earlier resin-painted ceramics and complex textiles while introducing pre-fire slip painting in up to twelve ...