Utility Cloth
Servilleta
42-35-372
From: Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Coban
Curatorial Section: American
| Native Name | Servilleta |
| Object Number | 42-35-372 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Kekchi |
| Provenience | Guatemala | Department of Alta Verapaz | Coban |
| Culture Area | Central American |
| Date Made | pre 1933 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | Used as tablecloth or basket cover. Yellow cotton embroidered in bands of vines and flowers in red, green and white cotton. Both ends fringed. As per Sigrid Meier, "Warp: 18 epi, three singles, Z twist, yellow cotton. Weft: 16 ppi, three singles, Z twist, yellow cotton. Balanced plain weave. Supplementary weft is two faced. Woven on a backstrap loom." |
| Length | 70 cm |
| Width | 54 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Lilly de Jongh Osborne, 1942 |
| Other Number | 301 - Other Number |
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