Utility Cloth

Servilleta

85-2-118E

From: Guatemala | Estanzuela | Department of Zacapa

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Servilleta
Object Number 85-2-118E
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chorti
Provenience Guatemala | Estanzuela | Department of Zacapa
Culture Area Central American
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

2X2 white cotton gauze, alternating alignmant. Orange supplementary weft embroidery.

As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 20 epi, two singles, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 26 ppi, two singles, Z twist, white cotton. Balanced plain weave and gauze weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. Woven on a backstrap loom."

Length 24 cm
Width 34 cm
Credit Line Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985

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