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  • A portion of a tapestry woven in coloured wools, silks and silver-gilt threads on cotton. The design depicts a variety of Asian-derived motifs of creatures and flowers against a red background. At the centre of the design is a large bird with bright plumage, probably a phoenix depicted as being similar in appearance to a peacock. This bird is surrounded by flowers and leaves of differing shapes and sizes and also a number of stems bearing strawberries. Amidst these forms are numerous creatures: merpeople playing stringed instruments (suggestive of lutes); a crowned lion, parrots and other birds with multi-coloured plumage; a unicorn with its head lowered; dog-like animals, one of which wears a golden collar; and two mythical creatures with the appearance of stylised lions. The design is approximately reversed to either side of what would have been a central axis – as the tapestry has been unevenly cut down, this ‘central axis’ is positioned towards the left of this portion. The feathers of the birds, fish-scaled tails of the merpeople and the crowns of the lions are woven in silk yarns. All of the white animals are in silk, except for the unicorn which is in a fuzzy woollen yarn. Only the warp threads of the unicorn’s mane are now present, which suggests that it may have originally been woven with gilt or other threads which have since corroded or dispersed. Technical description (from The Colonial Andes p. 252 – see references): Tapestry weave, reversible, with single- interlocking and dovetail joins; 'wedge weave'. Warp: cotton /\ and ///\ 32 per in. (white and light brown), both 2 ply and 3 ply. Weft: camelid /\ 108 per in. (cochineal red, brown, yellow, purple, blue and white; plied blue and white; red and white, and yellow and brown); silk /\ (green, yellow, purple, light blue, black, and white [some white yarns are very thick, unspun]); silver sheet strip \ on white silk core /\. Selvages: none preserved (cut on all four edges). Condition: generally good, colours well-preserved; some staining along lower edge; a few insect holes. (en)
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