Utility Cloth
Servilleta
85-2-332
From: Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez | Department of San Marcos
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Servilleta |
| Object Number | 85-2-332 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | San Pedro Sacatepequez | Department of San Marcos |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Green cotton ground. Brocaded white cotton diamond float weft in zig zag bands. Borders brocaded. Silk and cotton. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 46 epi, two singles, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 12 ppi, two singles, white. 11 ppi, two singles, Z twist, green cotton. Supplementary weft is single faced brocade, white cotton, multicolor silk. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 81 cm |
| Width | 80 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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