Mantle fragment

Compositions of the size and quality found in this fragment of a mantle are quite rare.
Around the 7th century a.D., the influence of the important Huari group became one of the most characteristic features of the artistic manifestations of a large area of the southern coastal of Peru, especially in the Nasca area.
Local textile production gives rise to a hybrid style. Tie-dye decoration mixes two different techniques to achieve two different decorative patterns, circles and diagonals, which alternate in the composition creating an extraordinary rhythm of shapes and colours.