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High fashion in the Andes, a Wari tunic. Smarthistory. 308K subscribers. Subscribed. 325. 5.4K views 1 year ago. Tunic, Wari, c. 600–850 C.E., wool and cotton, 219.7 cm long,...
1 de feb. de 2023 · 01/02/2023. High fashion in the Andes, a Wari tunic. Watch on. Tunic, Wari, c. 600–850 C.E., wool and cotton, 219.7 cm long, Peru (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design) speakers: Dr. Sarahh Scher and Dr. Beth Harris. source. Tags. Smarthistory.
With their intricate designs and vivid colors, Wari tapestry tunics are some of the most striking textile creations of the Andes. Their unconventional use of distortion, abstraction, and deconstruction challenges the longstanding scholarly view of the arts of the indigenous Americas as uninventive, and subject to oppressing cultural norms.
A Wari tunic. by Dr. Sarahh Scher and Dr. Beth Harris. Tunic, Wari, c. 600–850 C.E., wool and cotton, 219.7 cm long, Peru (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design) Additional resources. This work at the RISD Museum. “ Andean Textiles ” on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art. [flickr_tags user_id=”82032880 ...
- [Presenter] They're a Highland culture, which means that they were located up in the area of the Andes Mountains. They were breeders of llamas and alpacas, and users of their wool for a lot of their textiles, especially for high-end elite status textiles like this hat.
by Dr. Mary Brown. 36 of 96 feather panels, Wari, c. 600–900 C.E., feathers on cotton, camelid hair, South Coast, Peru, 207 x 614 cm ( The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Blue and yellow horizontal rectangles, shimmering the way only natural feathers can, alternate in a stunning iridescent abstraction.
This fine tunic, composed of two long, thin textiles sewn together lengthwise, is tightly woven with brightly dyed and finely spun llama or alpaca wool. Bands of interlocking wedge shapes feature...
