Utility Cloth
Servilleta
| Native Name | Servilleta |
|---|---|
| Object Number: | 85-2-95B |
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Pocomam |
| Provenience: | Guatemala Palin Department of Escuintla |
| Culture Area: | Central American |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Cotton |
| Length: | 78 cm |
| Width: | 82 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: | 95B - Other Number |
Description
Cotton, white ground with red borders on two sides, all over brocading with double headed eagle, animals, birds, brocaded floral design brocaded on four sides.
As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 32 epi, 2 singles, Z twist, white cotton. Border - 46 epi, 2 singles, Z twist, blue and red cotton. Weft: 16 ppi, 2 singles, blue and red cotton. Warp and warp faced plain weave. Supplemental weft - two faced. 1 panel - 3 selvedges. Made on a backstrap loom."
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