Utility Cloth
Servilleta
85-2-95E
From: Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Servilleta |
| Object Number | 85-2-95E |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Pocomam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Date Made | 1950- |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | After 1950, white cotton, brocaded, birds, diamond borders. Red and blue border stripes. Red and blue shadow stripes. Brocaded bird figurines, diamond borders. Background spotted design multicolored. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 70 epi, 3 ply white cotton. Weft: 18 ppi, 2 singles, white cotton. Warp faced plain weave. Supplemental weft two faced. 1 panel - 3 selvedges. Made on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 84 cm |
| Width | 84 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985 |
| Other Number | 95E - Other Number |
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