Utility Cloth
Servilleta
85-2-95C
From: Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla
Curatorial Section: American
Native Name | Servilleta |
Object Number | 85-2-95C |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Pocomam |
Provenience | Guatemala | Palin | Department of Escuintla |
Culture Area | Central American |
Section | American |
Materials | Cotton |
Description | Thin, white cotton ground with brocaded dots, birds and zigzag border. Old style design. As per Sigrid Meier, "40 epi, single, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 26 ppi, single, Z twist, white cotton. Balanced plain weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. One panel, three selvedges. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
Length | 79 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 |
Other Number | 95C - Other Number |
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