Servilleta

Museum number:
3-29978
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030029978
Accession number:
Acc.4518
Description:
Backstrap-loomed, balanced plain weave; one piece; warps cut and twisted into strands, then strands twisted into doubles to form fringes. 109 cm x 59.5 cm. Native name/meaning: servilleta/multipurpose cloth. Materials, techniques: cotton: singles in black; 2 two-ply in blue, yellow, green, purple, yellow and peach; Sedalina: 3 singles in yellow. Context of use: weft stripes are multicolored and vary in width from wide to narrow in a consistent pattern repeated throughout the piece. "Slubs" in weft are also consistently occurring throughout the piece; predominately cotton with some yellow sedalina black fringe is created by twisting cut warps into strands, then twisting 2 strands together and knotting the end.
Donor:
Miguel Hun
Collection place:
Totonicapán, Totonicapán Department, Guatemala
Verbatim coll. place:
Totonicapan, Guatemala
Collector:
Miguel Hun
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Servilleta, accession number 3-29978, described as Backstrap-loomed, balanced plain weave; one piece; warps cut and twisted into strands, then strands twisted into doubles to form fringes. 109 cm x 59.5 cm. Native name/meaning: servilleta/multipurpose cloth. Materials, techniques: cotton: singles in black; 2 two-ply in blue, yellow, green, purple, yellow and peach; Sedalina: 3 singles in yellow. Context of use: weft stripes are multicolored and vary in width from wide to narrow in a consistent pattern repeated throughout the piece. "Slubs" in weft are also consistently occurring throughout the piece; predominately cotton with some yellow sedalina black fringe is created by twisting cut warps into strands, then twisting 2 strands together and knotting the end.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Servilleta, accession number 3-29978, described as Backstrap-loomed, balanced plain weave; one piece; warps cut and twisted into strands, then strands twisted into doubles to form fringes. 109 cm x 59.5 cm. Native name/meaning: servilleta/multipurpose cloth. Materials, techniques: cotton: singles in black; 2 two-ply in blue, yellow, green, purple, yellow and peach; Sedalina: 3 singles in yellow. Context of use: weft stripes are multicolored and vary in width from wide to narrow in a consistent pattern repeated throughout the piece. "Slubs" in weft are also consistently occurring throughout the piece; predominately cotton with some yellow sedalina black fringe is created by twisting cut warps into strands, then twisting 2 strands together and knotting the end.

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