Tela de Cofradía- Ceremonial cloth: Backstrap-loomed, warp predominant plain weave, two-faced suppl. weft brocading,. one piece, cut warps at each end create two fringes.
Donor:
Janet Tellefsen
Collection place:
Quetzaltenango Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Quezaltenango, Quezaltenango
Culture or time period:
K'iche'
Collector:
Thomas Whittaker
Collection date:
late 1960s-1976
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk floss
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Production date:
1930s
Accession date:
March 1, 1989
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
width 30.5 centimeters and length 236 centimeters
Comment:
MATERIALS, TECHNIQUES: Two singles of white cotton warp; 2,3,4, singles weft. Brocading in background in silk floss in pale yellow and off white, 2,3, singles purple, lavender cotton. Piece is predominantly white cotton plain weave. Geometric suppl. weft brocading occurs 6 inches from each end. One band is 1 1/2 inches wide and the other is 3 1/2 inches wide. Fringes on the ends are 1 1/2 inches long. Wavy effect at the side selvedges is created by sections of balanced plain weave where warps float on the back side o the cloth. Different iconography in each supplementary weft brocaded band. Native name and meaning:Tela de Cofradía- Ceremonial cloth: CONTEXT OF USE: Dating realtes to use of lavender yarn or hilo morado de Nicoya. Used to adorn the cross, that is why it is so long (Arriola de Geng). CONSERVATION: Good. Some stains (Wendy Berkelman)