“Revisiting the Ocucaje Opened Tunic from the Textile Museum; Washington, D.C.: Textile Models and the Process of Imitation”

Authors

Sophie Desrosiers, École des Hautes Études en Sciences SocialesFollow

Date of this Version

2008

Comments

Presented at Textile Society of America 11^th Biennial Symposium: Textiles as Cultural Expressions, September 4-7, 2008, Honolulu, Hawai'i. Copyright © 2008 Sophie Desrosiers

Abstract

Features of the Ocucaje textile (accession number 1959.11.1) belonging to the Textile Museum Washington, D.C. have previously been analyzed by Mary Frame as representing designs derived from thread and sprang imagery. A new look at the textile reveals a textile model. The origin of this model will be traced as well as the innovation of new procedures used in the process of imitation.