Utility Cloth
Servilleta
Native Name | Servilleta |
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Object Number: | 85-2-118C |
Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Chorti |
Provenience: | Guatemala Estanzuela Department of Zacapa |
Culture Area: | Central American |
Section: | American |
Materials: | Cotton |
Length: | 24 cm |
Width: | 28 cm |
Credit Line: | Gift of Center of Inter-American Relations; Stanley de Jongh Osborne, Richard de Jongh Osborne and Mrs. Ford E. Smith, 1985 |
Description
White cotton gauze in alternating alignment. Orange supplementary weft embroidery.
As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 24 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."
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