Aymara Tari Fragment, Bolivia

Wide, striped cloth in red, orange and teal with a band of tiny motifs across the middle.

This Aymara tari fragment from Bolivia is Aymara, from Bolivia, and dates to the mid 20th century. A tari is a small woven cloth, traditionally used in the Andes to carry coca leaves, and it is usually woven in bands of colored patterning. Horizontal rectangle of handwoven cloth ruled with stripes in crimson, orange, teal, green and mustard yellow. A narrow central band holds small woven animal and geometric figures in pale tones. The edges are finished in dark thread. It is 18 inches wide and 31 long.

Plenty of stripes and not a single one apologizing.