Utility Cloth

Servilleta

85-2-332

From: Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez | Department of San Marcos

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Servilleta
Object Number 85-2-332
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Mam
Provenience Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez | Department of San Marcos
Culture Area Central American
Section American
Materials Cotton
Description

Green cotton ground. Brocaded white cotton diamond float weft in zig zag bands. Borders brocaded. Silk and cotton.

As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 46 epi, two singles, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 12 ppi, two singles, white. 11 ppi, two singles, Z twist, green cotton. Supplementary weft is single faced brocade, white cotton, multicolor silk. Woven on a backstrap loom."

Length 81 cm
Width 80 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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