XII-III b.C. - 1100 b.C. - 201 b.C.

Unità di misura: cm; Larghezza: 23.7; Lunghezza: 37.2; Unità di misura: cm; Larghezza: 11.8; Lunghezza: 22; Unità di misura: cm; Larghezza: 5.5; Lunghezza: 21.5

Perù

cotone naturale e fibra camelide, tela bilanciata e punto erba

Le mani delle americhe - Laboratorio didattico S. Agostino, Genova - nov-gen. 1995/96

Three fragments probably belonging to the same natural cotton balanced canvas textile. The stem stitch made in natural cotton and camelid fibers designs male characters with bows, crescent-shaped headdresses, feathers and tunics with monochrome and bichrome faces on a bottle green background. The colors used are moss green, yellow, blue, brown, pink, red, light blue. The textile is not double-sided.

V-IX

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 15.3; Lunghezza: 28

Perù

cotone naturale e fibra camelide, punto ad arazzo

Mostra d'arte precolombiana e di etnologia americana - Genova/ Castello D'Albertis - 1972/ 1977<br>Le mani delle americhe - Genova/ Laboratorio didattico S.Agostino - 1995/ 1996

Rectangular fragment of tapestry stitch fabric. Warp in natural cotton and wefts in natural cotton and camelid fiber in yellow, light and dark brown, red/pink (background) which draw ornithomorphic figures in profile and stylized rays coupled on two superimposed registers. Separations sewn with natural cotton thread. The textile is double-faced.

V-II b.C. - 500 b.C. - 101 b.C.

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 29.5; Lunghezza: 15

Perù

cotone naturale e fibra camelide, tela bilanciata e punto erba

Mostra d’Arte Precolombiana e di Etnologia Americana, Genova - Museo delle Culture del Mondo Castello D'Albertis - 1972/1977<br>Le mani delle Americhe - Laboratorio didattico Sant'Agostino - 11/1995-01/1996

Textile art is an extremely important medium among Andean cultural manifestations. The burials found on the southern desert coasts of Peru and northern Chile present funerary offerings in organic materials, including grave goods with weaving tools and fabrics with bright colors and extremely varied technical and iconographic solutions, in which the deceased is wrapped and accompanied in the afterlife.
The oldest needle-woven textile finds made of plant fibers found testify that the Andean populations had knowledge of spinning and weaving since 8.000 BC. Rectangular fragment of Paracas fabric made of natural cotton with balanced linen, part of a funerary item. The diagonal stem-stitch embroidery, in camelid fiber on a dark brown background, depicts two overlapping bat demons in flight. The figures are made one in red and the other in black-green, with eyes and mouth embroidered with yellow and red thread. The fabric is not double-sided.

IX - 800 - 900

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 16.1; Larghezza: 13.8

Perù

cotone- punto ad arazzo

Mostra d'arte precolombiana e di etnologia americana - Genova/ Castello D'Albertis - 1972/1977<br>Le mani delle Americhe - Genova/ Laboratorio didattico S.Agostino - 1995/96

Fragment of rectangular tapestry stitch fabric made up of two pieces with a natural cotton warp and camelid fiber wefts that draw within squares, pairs of stylized two-headed birds which form a stylized face. The squares, colored brown, red/pink, red and green, are arranged in a checkerboard pattern with a diagonal pattern due to the alternation of colors and alternated with checkerboard squares in yellow and brown, red/pink, green or red. Unstitched and stitched detachments. Double-sided fabric. Bouclé stitch embroidery on a selvage.