Utility Cloth
Servilleta
42-35-161
From: Guatemala | Mixco | Department of Guatemala
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Servilleta |
| Object Number | 42-35-161 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Pocomam |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Mixco | Department of Guatemala |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Date Made | Pre 1933 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | White cloth with occasional groups of pile weave threads and ends fringed. Narrow band of red, purple, orange and cerise zigzag lines near each end. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 28 epi, three singles, Z twist, white cotton. Weft: 24 ppi, three singles, Z twist, white cotton. Loop weft: four singles, Z twist, white cotton. Balanced plain weave with loops. Supplementary weft is two faced. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 63 cm |
| Width | 51 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 97 - Other Number |
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