#precolumbian textiles

[blatantescapism]

I've got some resources for Anonymous! Worth noting: the technique has a variety of other names, including "needle knitting", "anillado cruzado", and many others.

First, here's a tutorial for the very very most basic concept. It produces a plain, one-color band that is rooted in the edge of a fabric. The author (Laverne Waddington) learned it from one of her native textile teachers in Potosí, Bolivia.

(Check out the rest of the website, it’s a great resource for all kinds of practical textile techniques. The main focus is South American, but she has also traveled to study under native textile artists from around the globe.)

It's way simpler than naalbinding. It's literally just sewing into the previous row. It's like a cross between buttonhole stitch and Van Dyke stitch.

Buttonhole needle lace: the stitch is taken in the loose swag between loops. It is repeated back and forth in horizontal rows, creating a staggered brickwork effect.

Van Dyke Stitch: the stitch is taken around the neck of the previous loop. It immediately repeats below, creating a straight stacked effect.

Cross knit looping: the stitch is taken around the neck of the previous loop. It is repeated back and forth in horizontal rows, creating an overall visual effect that looks like stockinette knitting.

Congrats, that's it. That's the only stitch.

That one stitch is so incredibly versatile, however, that it's all the Nasca needed to create breathtakingly glorious art.

Everything you see here is cross knit looping. All made just with that one stitch.

The complexity is created by using color changes, increases and decreases, starting new branches, taking the stitch in free-form angles, and working in three dimensions over a central core of padding.

(also, each one of these figures is TINY, and the entire thing is perfectly double-sided!) Here's an article about the specific textile, written by one of its main researchers:

Here are links about the revival of the technique by the indigenous people of the Andes. Sadly short on details, but they do contain some images of new artworks.

Many of the most useful and/or authentic resources are in Spanish; search for "anillado cruzado".

I intend to (eventually) work out the pattern of this Killer Whale Holding a Severed Head design, held in the American Museum of Natural History:

Could you point me in a good direction to learn more about the (preferably pre-columbian) american use of "cross knit looping"? I keep finding references to it in articles about nalbinding, but I'm having difficulty finding sources that talk about it specifically or in depth.

Despite all the textile posts for months, I actually know very little about textile production in the Americas. It's partially the result of preservation not being great for organics in Jalisco. So there really has been no need for me to learn about it. Instead, I will tag my friend @girlinthebrightbluejeans who studied textiles and might be able to answer your question.

[ownencyclopedia]

☀Miniature Dress | Ica

Colorful bird feathers were highly prized items in ancient Peru and textiles covered with them are among the most spectacular and luxurious works made in the Precolumbian world. This miniature feathered dress is one of a large group of similar garments reportedly found in an offering at Ullujaya in the lower Ica Valley in southern Peru. The miniatures are one-fourth to one-third the size of full-sized garments

[tomoyoo]

11, 22? ✨

Hii

11. Nothing concrete, but I want to keep having time to do things slowly

22.I visited a cool precolumbian textile museum, it was amazinggg

[fashionbooksmilano]

The Poncho

Art and Tradition

curators :Javier Eguiguren Molina, José Eguiguren Molina, Roberto Vega

Vega & Eguiguren, Buenos Aires 2001, 72 pages, ISBN  9789879838631

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This catalogue has been published in conjuction wtih the exhibition “The Poncho, Art and Tradition” held at the National Decorative Art Museum. Buenos Aires, Argentina, October/November 2001 . Ponchos from private and public collections. Covers these textiles from Precolumbian Andes to contemporary central America.

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[blatantescapism]

I have compulsively pestered the institution, with citations.

one of which was THIS Nasca pot, held at the Art Institute of Chicago. Same rough timeframe! Absolutely no ambiguity!

(I also found a few books on Andean textiles that I didn't already own. Contemplating whether they are within my nonexistent budget.)

I am very neurotypical about all this (sarcasm)

I was just in Detroit, for reasons, and stopped in at their Detroit Institute of Arts

and now I have to compose an email to the curation team

because I believe that they are Wrong about this pot:

The display label said “Bowl Painted with Children Spinning Yarn, about 400, Ceramic, Unknown artist, Nasca culture, Peru.” (The collection label is “Bowl Decorated with Men Spinning, between 200 BCE and 200 CE, Nazca, Precolumbian” which is a weird discrepancy but not the point)

The point is, this simply isn’t what spinning looks like. I don’t think anyone in human history has attempted to make yarn this way. It is certainly not how the Nasca bead spindle or the modern Southern Quechua pushka are used.

I’m fairly certain that they are actually holding slings, slingshots. Virtually unchanged from the Nasca culture to the modern Southern Quechua, with a tassel at one end and a slit pouch.

@tlatollotl care to give me a vibe check? before I compulsively pester an institution?

[desimonewayland]

Unku (ceremonial tunic) with designs of stylized figures - Huari style, 600 AD - 900 AD

Kelim tapestry in cotton and camelid fibre

Museo de Arte de Lima

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Headband.

Culture/Period: Wari-related, Middle Horizon

Date: A.D. 500–800

Place of origin: probably South or Central Coast, Perú

Medium: Cotton larkshead knotted ground with supplementary cut pile.

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[jpelsous]

Unku Wari (Horizonte Medio, 600-900 d.C.). Tapiz kelim en algodón y lana de camélido. Museo de Arte de Lima. (en MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima)

[animals-in-world-art-history]

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25701595

Cochineal Red: The Art History of a Color

Elena Phipps

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

New Series, Vol. 67, No. 3, COCHINEAL RED: The Art History of a Color (WINTER 2010), pp. 4-48

“...discusses the origin of the red colorant derived from the insect cochineal, its early use in Precolumbian ritual textiles from Mexico and Peru, and the spread of the American dyestuff through cultural interchange following the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World in the 16th century”

[blatantescapism]

ohhhh noooo it has the saddest eyes

textile

Cultures/periods: Chimu (?) Chancay (?)

Production date: 900-1430

Made in: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Textile fragment; cotton plain weave ground with paired warps; camelid supplementary weft patterning; feline figure; cream and black.

British Museum

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[tomoyoo]

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hiya this year i went to a local precolumbian textile museum called amano, it was a good experience !!😊 and next week i'm going on a trip to coastal cities

[desimonewayland]

Wari mantle with Andean cross, Wari Artisans 700 A.D. - 1200 A.D.

Mantle or fabric wall used by the Wari nobility, made with discontinous warp and weft and tie-dyed technique

Location Created: Huayuri, Nazca, Ica, Perú

Collection of Amano Precolumbian Textile Museum

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Featherwork tunic front.

Culture: Peruvian

Date: A.D. 400–800

Place of origin: Perú

Medium: Cotton plain weave ( 2 pieces stitched together vertically), embroidered with feathers.