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  • This portion of tapestry is woven mainly in silks with coloured wools and silver-gilt thread and would probably have been used as a wall-hanging or bed-curtain. Although woven in Peru, the design demonstrates a fusion of native techniques and colouring with motifs and imagery imported from Europe and Spain’s East Asian colonies. This suggests that the tapestry was made by local Peruvian craftsmen for Spanish colonisers. The design depicts a variety of Asian-derived motifs of creatures and flowers. Notably the one-horned xiezhai (from Chinese mythology) and the unicorn appear to have no mythological parallels in the Andes. The stringed instruments being played by the merpeople appear similar in appearance to lutes, which had an established history of use in Spain prior to this date. The colour palette, particularly the deep cochineal red ground, is typically Andean. Cochineal dye was abundant in both Peru and Mexico, and the red yarns would have been dyed there. The silks would have arrived in Mexico on the Manila galleons which plied their trade from the Philippines after the Spanish conquest in the 1560s. These silks would have come from Asia and were probably treated in Mexico before being sent south to Peru. In the Andes silk yarns were spun and plied before being woven into tapestries, whereas in China silk was used unspun. The use of silver-gilt thread is another element without an Andean origin. The metal threads are made of solid cut sheet metal wound round a core thread and this method of making suggests they are European in origin, probably imported from Spain, but composed of silver mined in the Americas. (en)
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