Piña cloth (mid-1800s): Art, History and Details

Piña cloth (mid-1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This fabric is woven in plain weave using a piña ground with vertical bands of closely spaced silk warp stripes arranged in a repeating pattern. The stripes run the full length of the cloth.

Object facts

• Title: Piña cloth
• Date: mid-1800s
• Culture: Philippines
• Type: Textile
• Technique: piña fiber, silk
• Dimensions: Overall: 27.5 x 51 cm (10 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
• Collection: Textiles
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1944.280

A detail from the museum

Piña is made from the leaves of the pineapple plant, first brought to the Philippines by the Spanish in the sixteenth century.

Collection credit

Gift of Dr. Phyllis Ackerman

View the collection record

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