Object name: Textile / Function: 2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 3-29983, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; two-faced supp. weft brocading; one piece; end selvages loom-finished; commercial tape ties 10" long at top; tape is hand-stitched on sides and along bottom. 73.5 cm x 49.5 cm. Native name/meaning: Delantal de Santo/Saint's Apron. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 8 singles and 1 two-ply in yellow. Cotton: 12 singles in red, yellow; Sedalina: 4 two-ply in lavender, green, red, dark blue; 8 two-ply yellow; silk floss in magenta and purple. Contest of use: Collected by Miguel Hun and donated to the museum in 1991. There is a variety of supp weft yarns including silk, sedalina, and cotton. Faded blue commercial bias tape is hand-stitched down with blue yarn on sides and bottom; weaver probably embroidered these words in cursive, "Clemente Suburjuz, 9 de Febrero de 1949 o 1950" across two bottom zones of yellow background. Yellow color looks similar to one Arriola de Geng identified as "old." Hun wrote: "It was aquired in 1981-1982. I used to call is "El Engano (The Deceit) because Flor from the Ixchel Museum told me it was recently made. As I recall it has silk mixed with cotton in its brocade. It makes me think that the aprin was in fact authentic, because of the silk itself. The apron comes from the San Juan and San Pedro Sacatepequez area which makes it of Kakchikel origin. As you well know, aprons are used to cover the saint's sculpture in the cofradia. 1st row: stars--Venus. 2nd row: peacocks, 3rd row: probably worms typical of the area, 4th row: turkeys, chompipes, 5th row: horses, caballos, 6th row: hens or roosters, gallinas or gallos.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 3-30255, described as RGM cloth made by two panels measuring 23" wide by 79 inches long that have been sewn together; pattern is the same on both sides; pattern of the two panels starts out matching at one end but are way off by the other end of the join; solid color bands run across the panels interspersed with bands of black and white ikot.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21030, described as Textile. Beige colored silk with all-over floral and abstract design embroidery in pale green, mauve and apricot and gold metallic thread, crocheted edge in gold metallic thread, several areas of discoloration. 184 centimeter length, 49.5 centimeter width

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 10-2318, described as Embroidered cloth with fringe; yellow wrap stripes; embroidery in multicolored; geometric; fringe; 84 inches by 18½ inches

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 18-1730, described as Cloth; 237cm x 105 cm; cotton batik, plant and animal motifs ; dark brown, dark blue and cream; border cream and brown.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 5-16405, described as woven textile - Yoruba. large woven cloth composed of 3 joined strips each 68 cm wide. each strip has a wide 28 cm Indigo stripe and 43 alternating blue, white, and indigo stripes plus 2 tan stripes on each side. finished with warp fringe. from Woman's loom, per donor. Conservation: Several holes in center segment.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 18-1727, described as Cloth; 106 cm x 106 cm; cotton batik; black background with brown blue and tan and off-white shadow-pupped figures (“nayang kulit”); flower motifs radiating from center motif; border on edges of square in similar colors;

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21476, described as Fabric panel: Twill weave; probably handspun; dark red background with large central panel with weft ikat pattern in green, red, and black diamond motifs with stepped diamonds and serpentine geometric patterns; yellow ikat narrow stripe 3cm from selvage; weft bands of darker red at ends; 4cm wide with ikat patterned weft stripw tih yellow borders on 1 end band; 18cm wide with 2 ikat patterned strips with green and yellow borders on other end band; both bands have thicker weft than body of piece; 3cm wide very find black thread warp is almost invisible in pattern with exception of dark red in selvages. L=199cm x W=84.5cm.

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