Textile

Museum number:
3-29993
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4518
Description:
Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; one piece; end selvages loom-finished. 60 cm x 66 cm. Native name and meaning: Tzute de Mujer/ Woman's multipurpose cloth. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 12 singles in red; two-ply in purpose, yellow, green, lavender, and black/white (fake jaspe). Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun and donated it to the Museum in 1991. Multicolored width of warp stripes punctuated by "fake jaspes"; some weft knots and exposed wefts protrude out from the otherwise completely covered wefts; selvages show red-weft as wrap stitch. Purchased between 1980-1985 (Hun). A fake jaspe effect occurs when black and white yarns are twisted together and used as a weft (Schevill).
Donor:
Miguel Hun
Collection place:
San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala Dept, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Guatemala; San Juan 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 3-29993, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; one piece; end selvages loom-finished. 60 cm x 66 cm. Native name and meaning: Tzute de Mujer/ Woman's multipurpose cloth. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 12 singles in red; two-ply in purpose, yellow, green, lavender, and black/white (fake jaspe). Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun and donated it to the Museum in 1991. Multicolored width of warp stripes punctuated by "fake jaspes"; some weft knots and exposed wefts protrude out from the otherwise completely covered wefts; selvages show red-weft as wrap stitch. Purchased between 1980-1985 (Hun). A fake jaspe effect occurs when black and white yarns are twisted together and used as a weft (Schevill).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 3-29993, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; one piece; end selvages loom-finished. 60 cm x 66 cm. Native name and meaning: Tzute de Mujer/ Woman's multipurpose cloth. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 12 singles in red; two-ply in purpose, yellow, green, lavender, and black/white (fake jaspe). Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun and donated it to the Museum in 1991. Multicolored width of warp stripes punctuated by "fake jaspes"; some weft knots and exposed wefts protrude out from the otherwise completely covered wefts; selvages show red-weft as wrap stitch. Purchased between 1980-1985 (Hun). A fake jaspe effect occurs when black and white yarns are twisted together and used as a weft (Schevill).

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