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Textiles
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Textiles is a 3D virtual gallery on MyGallery3D, a walkable online exhibition of 16 works. Step inside and explore it in your browser: no app, no headset.
A 3D virtual museum of textiles. Woven, dyed, embroidered and knotted cloth: the most labour-intensive art form in the building, and historically the one least likely to be signed.
Every piece in this online exhibition comes from the Art Institute of Chicago's Open Access collection, released under CC0. Each label gives the artist, the date and the medium.
Navajo (Diné), c. 1800/90
Cotton and wool dovetailed tapestry weave · New Mexico
Robert Allerton Endowment
18th century
Silk, satin weave, embroidered · Spain
Gift of the Antiquarian Society
4th century
Linen and wool, plain weave and slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts · Egypt
Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society
Ainu, c. 1860
Elm tree bark fiber, plain weave; center back and outer edges appliquéd with cotton, plain weave; underlaid with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with cotton in laid work and couching · Japan
Robert Allerton Endowment
Chuquibamba, 1300-1550
Camelid wool, single interlocking tapestry weave and five-color complementary weft weave with center band of complementary weft weave · Peru
Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment · Chuquibamba on Wikipedia
Peru
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp
Navajo (Diné), c. 1860/65
Wool, single interlocking tapestry weave; twined edges; corner tassels · Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah
Robert Allerton Endowment
Inca, 1550-1625
Cotton and wool (camelid), single interlocking tapestry weave with eccentric wefts · Peru
Bessie Bennett Endowment · Inca Empire on Wikipedia
Wari, 600-800
Cotton and wool (camelid), single interlocking tapestry weave; neck and armholes finished with wool (camelid) in overcast stitches; seams joined with wool (camelid) in darning stitches · Peru
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
1450-1500
Silk, plain weave with supplementary silk facing wefts, secondary binding warps tying supplementary gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loops in areas and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet · Italy
Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society
Nasca, 500-900
Peru
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp
Nasca, 650 CE-700 CE
Peru
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp
Greco, Roman period (30 BCE, 641 CE), 4th/5th century
Wool and linen, tapestry weave · Egypt
Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society
7th century
Wool and linen, slit tapestry weave · Egypt
Gift of Mrs. H. O. Stone to the Antiquarian Society
16th century
Silk and linen, satin damask weave · Italy
Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society
1815/20
Wool, double interlocking 2:2 'S' twill tapestry weave; ends of pieced 2:2 'S' twill weaves; main warp fringe · India
Gift of Mrs. John J. Glessner through the Antiquarian Society
