Utility Cloth
Tzute
85-2-136
From: Guatemala | Comalapa | Department of Chimaltenango
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Tzute |
| Object Number | 85-2-136 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Cakchiquel |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Comalapa | Department of Chimaltenango |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Cotton cloth with red warp and weft alternating white and blue stripes. Supplementary weft embroidery in geometric bands. Knotted tasseled fringe. May be Dept of Escuintla, Palin; Pocoman Central. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 44 epi, single, Z twist, white cotton ground. Warp selvedges: 32 ppi, five singles, Z twist, blue/red cotton. 40 epi, two singles, Z twist, red cotton. Weft: 20 ppi, single, white cotton. Two singles, Z twist, red, blue/red cotton. Supplementary weft is two faced. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 80 cm |
| Width | 74 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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