4-4029 4
4-3889c 5
4-3882f 7
4-3962 9
4-3710m 11.5
16-1274 13.5 + 14.5
4-3633b 14
16-1256 14
16-1260 14
16-1240 14.5 + 15.5
4-3970 15
16-1280 15 + 15
4-4075d 15.5
16-1248 16
16-1225 16.5
4-4022a 17.5 + 17.5
4-3883b 19 + 19.5
4-4068b 20.5 + 23
4-3883d 21
4-4059a 22.5
16-1291 23
16-1253 24.5
16-1237 25
4-3890a 26
4-4056 26
4-3883a 27
16-1251 27 + 24.5
4-4068d 27.5
16-1265 27.5
4-4027 28
16-1257 28
16-1271 28
16-1272 28
16-1289 28
4-4023 28 + 28.5
16-1261 28.5
4-3633a 29
4-4055 29
16-1259 30
16-1250 30 + 31
16-1294 31
16-1283 33
16-1304b 33
4-3973d 33 + 33
16-1252 33.5 + 33.5
16-1269b 34
16-1266 34.5
16-1292 35
16-1286 41
Seventy-odd individually woven breadths of material are incomplete as
to width. The arbitrary groupings in which these fall are as follows:
Under 10 inches in width 3 specimens
11 inches to 20 inches 42 specimens
21 inches to 30 inches 22 specimens
31 inches to 40 inches 7 specimens
Side selvages strengthened by any one of the several methods we know
from commercial weavings are rare in textiles from primitive looms. It
is not uncommon, however, to find four or five edge yarns drawn more
closely together than are the others in the web. Familiarity with
these two facts made our discovery of a unique selvage finish a matter
of unusual interest. The edges of specimens 16-1228 and 16-1236 have
been reinforced by two stitchery techniques. Plate 8,i shows the
ordinary whipping stitches which form the foundation for the second
technique. Plate 8,h shows this second line of work to consist of a
double strand twined, but always from back to front, with the tops of
the whipping stitches.
On one of the Chincha 4- specimens (4-4068a) the half-inch selvage is
distinguished from the body of the fabric by the use of warp yarns
lighter in color than those appearing in the body of the fabric and by
the two-over-one weave of the right-hand selvage in contrast to the
one-over-one weave found elsewhere in the fabric. In specimen 4-4027
the edges are strengthened on each side for some six inches of the
length by a single heavy 4-ply warp unit.
In the Chincha 4- specimens, where congestion of edge yarns occurs,
its extent in from the edge varies from 5 threads (in 3 specimens) to
24 threads (1 specimen); in the majority of these specimens, the
congestion ranges from 6 to 12 threads (8 specimens). Textures in
plate 4,a, c are comparable to those in which maximum congestion
occurs.