Woman of Chiloé weaving

  • Conrad Martens
Publication date
June 2007

Abstract

27v contains a roughly drawn ellipseDrawing. At work in the centre of the picture is a woman with long dark hair, a necklace, and a dress with dark, possibly striated or multicoloured sleeves rolled up to the elbows. She leans across her loom with arms outstretched to reach the working part. The cloth under production seems to be white and unpatterned. The loom is horizontal and sketched with only one upright being shown in full. Behind the figure at work, the back wall of the building is shown, with timber uprights and mainly horizontal timber wallboarding indicated. In the centre right there is a small oblong window, below which on the floor a small tub stands. A rough plank has been leant up obliquely to the ceiling in front of the windo...

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