Object class: Embroidery (visual works) / Collection place: Sololá Department, Guatemala / Culture or time period: Mesoamerican peoples - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-32166, described as Child's cotton huipil, Santiago Atitlan Light purple warp with black warp strips and ground cloth with horizontal bands of supplementary weft along length of piece. Neck collar features typical embroidered squares with embroidered birds. Neck line square cut out and rolled and hand sewn under, with floral design surrounding. One end of huipil rolled and hand sewn, other cut with loose threads. Arm holes outlined with scalloped crochet done in turquoise embroidery floss.

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-32178, described as Back-strap woven, three piece, cotton (lienzo) huipil. Two side panels are white with blue warp and weft stripes creating rectangles. Central panel blue warp and ground cloth with green, red warp stripes and two bands of multicolored stripes in supplementary weft. Square cut out neckline is rolled and entirely covered in thick embroidery floss in multiple colored sections. Warp threads cut and left loose. Machine sewn seams.

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-32175, described as Two piece cotton back-strap woven huipil with green and white warp stripes. The neckline is diamond shaped with the cut section machine sewn inside as interfacing. Neckline and shoulders are finished with heavy fuscia chain stitched embroidery. The majority of the huipil of single sided horizontal stripes of supplementary weft, the designs are birds and other animals, plants and geometric shapes. There is a prominent band of vertical zigzags woven across the chest. There are vertical tucks the entire length of the huipil. The two pieces are joined with machine stitching, there is no randa. Many loose threads, especially around the bottom of the huipil, especially around the neckline and armholes. Both ends irregularly cut and left fringed.