an expanse halted only by the decorative bands along the not appear for the 昀椀rst time at Chan Chan, but it is seen sides, top, and/or bottom of the walls. The parallel with there at unprecedented levels. textile design is unmistakable. In his 1851 study on the origins of architecture, German The importance of textiles in the Andes is underscored architect Gottfried Semper argued that most decorative by the repetition of their designs in other media. A gold elements used in architecture were derived from the crown, for example, likely made just prior to the rise of the textile arts—that all geometric ornamental patterns were Chimú state, emulates the patterning of woven cloth, even prompted by the fundamental structures of the warp 11 down to the manner in which the two ends of the metal crossing the weft. Semper also saw the textile “dressing” sheet were joined, lashed together with thin gold “threads” of the architecture—the practice of covering structural (昀椀g. 20). Similarly, as noted above, architectural ornament elements with ornament—as “masking” the reality of the construction material. Moreover, he posited that the ear often borrowed from woven patterns. Chan Chan’s adobe - reliefs were made from a malleable earthen plaster, yet liest architectural forms were textile based (for example, their forms are planar and angular, echoing the linear tents), and over time evolved into structures made from rigidity of woven textiles. Moreover, the architectural reliefs more durable materials, such as stone, albeit with textile and textiles share similar iconography and compositions, patterning playing a residual symbolic role. This does not with an emphasis on in昀椀nity patterns and borders. This seem to be the case in Peru, however, where there is no correspondence between textiles and architecture does evidence for such an evolutionary process in architecture. Fig. 20. Lambayeque artist. Crown. North Coast, Peru, 900–1100. Gold, diam. 7 ⼀攀 in. (18.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1966, 1977 (66.196.13) 19