Day: December 20, 2012

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Mantle decorated with series of broad and narrow horizontal bands in reds, pale tan, cream, pale yellow, blues, silver.
Andean woman’s mantle
This beautiful cloth is a woman’s shoulder mantle, called a lliclla in the Quechua language of the Inca Empire, and was made during the colonial period of Peru. A perfect blend of the cross-cultural elements of the 16th– and 17th-century era of global trade, the Chinese silk and Spanish silver threads are woven with Inca techniques and...