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Identifier: smithsonianinsti07smit (find matches)
Title: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology : (bulletin)
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Fig. 5.—Highly conventionalized animal motive introduced into geometric patterns. It will be observed that all the examples given are woven in thetapestry style. TEXTILE FABRICS OF ANCIENT PERU. 11
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Fig. 6.—Human figure in rich colors; a masterpiece of textile art. 12 TEXTILE FABRICS OF ANCIENT PERU. We find that tliis was the method almost universally employed inrichly decorated stuifs, and for the reason no doubt that complex pat-terns and pictorial eflects are much more easily achieved by this thanby any other method. In plain weaving, where two series of filaments,the web and the woof, are employed, the best possible texture for simpleutility is produced. Both series connect more or less completely acrossthe piece and are interlaced approximately at right angles, giving greatstrength to the work ; but designs, excepting checkers and plain geo-metric figures, are introduced with much difficulty. The gobelins style partakes of the nature of embroidery, and patternsof various kinds are worked out with comparative ease. The Peruvian workman stretched his series of warp threads side byside, usually twenty or thirty to the inch, between two holding-rods,and upon this warp as a fo

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Ethnology
  • bookpublisher:Washington___G_P_O_
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