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Piña cloth
mid-1800s
- Medium
- piña fiber, silk
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- Overall: 27.5 x 51 cm (10 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Philippines
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. Phyllis Ackerman
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This fabric is woven in plain weave using a piña ground with vertical bands of closely spaced silk warp stripes arranged in a repeating pattern. The stripes run the full length of the cloth.
