Object Details
- Eduardo Portillo, (Venezuelan, born 1966)
- Mariá Dávila, (Venezuelan, born 1966)
- Description
- Field of 972 mosaic squares in different shades of blue and metallic with natural color palm fiber complementing the indigo and metallic and partially forming the frame of the mosaic.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Suzanne Tick, Dorothy Waxman, and Maylene M. Syracuse and Michael Trenner in memory of Richard M. Syracuse
- 2015
- Accession Number
- 2016-52-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- woven textiles
- Object Name
- Textile
- Type
- Textile
- Medium
- Medium: silk, wool, moriche palm fiber, copper, metallic yarn; dyed with indigo, cochineal, eucalyptus, onion and lengua de vaca (Rumex spp) Technique: triple weave
- Dimensions
- H x W: 182.8 × 125.8 cm (5 ft. 11 15/16 in. × 49 1/2 in.)
- made in
- Venezuela
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2016-52-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4af0b0698-8231-4601-82c8-4d45712a6fab
