Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Square of bright red cotton cloth with narrow black stripes, patterned in yellow silk with an an over-all asymmetrical arrangement of birds, horses, and grotesque animal forms. Large fuchsia-colored silk tassels at corners.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alan L. Wolfe
- Medium
- Medium: cotton, silk Technique: warp-faced plain weave with supplementary weft patterning Label: cotton with silk weft patterning
- Dimensions
- H x W: 65.1 x 55.9 cm (25 5/8 x 22 in.)
- Type
- woven textiles
- Tzute (man's head cloth)
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