Shawl

Item number 3097/15 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Patterned woven wool shawl with vertical coloured stripes and wider bands on a black ground. The shawl is made up of two panels sewn together at the vertical centre with dark brown thread. The centre of the shawl along the seam is a wide band of black ground, with solid stripes across the outer sections. The stripes are pink, purple, yellow, brown, and white, with orange stripes only on the left side of the shawl. The wide bands are patterned with wide zigzags or chevrons with concentric circle patterns inside. The right edge is patterned with checkers and the left edge with triangles. The edging is tubular and pink, patterned with yellow and blue lines.

History Of Use

Worn by women as a shawl (ahuayo; mantle).

Specific Techniques

Incomplete tubular edge, complementary warp in double-weave, ancient stitch joining the halves. Natural dyes with a small quantity of hot pink analine dye.