Fine Huari tapestry

Room 5, Vitrine 55

Textile
Highlands of southern Peru
Fusion Epoch (800 AD – 1300 AD)
ML600065

• Material: Cotton and camelid fiber thread.
• Technique: Lacework tapestry.
• This is a second world record in terms of the fineness of the thread. It has 305 threads per linear inch.
• This fragment depicts serpents with two heads, a feline’s head at one end and a bird’s head at the other.