Utility Cloth
Servilleta
85-2-118E
From: Guatemala | Estanzuela | Department of Zacapa
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Servilleta |
| Object Number | 85-2-118E |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chorti |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Estanzuela | Department of Zacapa |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | 2X2 white cotton gauze, alternating alignmant. Orange supplementary weft embroidery. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 20 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." |
| Length | 24 cm |
| Width | 34 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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