Lliklla (Shoulder cloth or carrying cloth)
<p>This textile combines the two approaches to warp-pattern weaving used in the other two works in this case. The weaver prepared the loom with different colors of warps (stretched threads) in vertical stripes. Then the weaver decided which color to bring to the front to create motifs backgrounded by the other color. Most of the stripes have two colors, but the stripes woven with X patterns have three—white, red, and green—which is a much more difficult technique because one color of thread is hidden within the middle of the cloth.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1987
- Dimensions
- 97 × 103.5 cm (38 1/4 × 40 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Quechua
Artist
Textile
Quechua, also called Runa simi in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancestral "Proto-Quechua" language, it is the most widely spoken pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers in 2004, and just under 7 million from the most recent census data available up to 2011. Approximately 13.9% of Peruvians speak a Quechua language.
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- Art Institute of Chicago
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