Textile

Museum number:
3-29981
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030029981
Accession number:
Acc.4518
Description:
Backstrap-loomed, warp-predominant plain weave; two-faced supp. weft brocading; one piece; loom-finished. 46 cm x 24 cm. Native name/meaning: gorra/child's cap. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 2 and 3 singles, red; 2 two-ply in blue and green. Mercerzied cotton: 8 two-ply in blue, yellow, green, lavender, pink, orange, purple, and maroon. Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun in the 1980s and donated to the museum in 1991. Red background with narrow blue warp stripes and .25" green warp stripes on both selvages. One band each of hens (1.5" wide) and "avispas" (1" wide) and two bands of geometric motifs (7/8" wide). All the supp. weft brocading is located on one selvage end of the textile. To create the cap, the two ends are joined an shaped according to the young child's head.
Donor:
Miguel Hun
Collection place:
San Pedro Sacatepéquez, Guatemala Dept, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala; San Pedro Sacatepequez
Collector:
Miguel Hun
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 3-29981, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-predominant plain weave; two-faced supp. weft brocading; one piece; loom-finished. 46 cm x 24 cm. Native name/meaning: gorra/child's cap. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 2 and 3 singles, red; 2 two-ply in blue and green. Mercerzied cotton: 8 two-ply in blue, yellow, green, lavender, pink, orange, purple, and maroon. Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun in the 1980s and donated to the museum in 1991. Red background with narrow blue warp stripes and .25" green warp stripes on both selvages. One band each of hens (1.5" wide) and "avispas" (1" wide) and two bands of geometric motifs (7/8" wide). All the supp. weft brocading is located on one selvage end of the textile. To create the cap, the two ends are joined an shaped according to the young child's head.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 3-29981, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-predominant plain weave; two-faced supp. weft brocading; one piece; loom-finished. 46 cm x 24 cm. Native name/meaning: gorra/child's cap. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 2 and 3 singles, red; 2 two-ply in blue and green. Mercerzied cotton: 8 two-ply in blue, yellow, green, lavender, pink, orange, purple, and maroon. Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun in the 1980s and donated to the museum in 1991. Red background with narrow blue warp stripes and .25" green warp stripes on both selvages. One band each of hens (1.5" wide) and "avispas" (1" wide) and two bands of geometric motifs (7/8" wide). All the supp. weft brocading is located on one selvage end of the textile. To create the cap, the two ends are joined an shaped according to the young child's head.

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