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  • Towel End, 18th–19th century

    Towel end made up of three pieces of loosely woven fine cloth with a deep band of embroidery of stylized allover floral design in silver-gilt thread and silk embroidery in…

  • Towel End (Mexico), late 19th century

    Colored glass beads strung onto the extended threads and then knotted into a pattern.

  • Towel End, 19th century

    End crossed by two types of shrine forms (?) alternating in blue, green and pink silk silver thread with touches of brown and cream. Fret border in cream and silver…

  • Towel End, 19th century

    Broad lower towel end with a border of drawn work with animals confronting initials “M.I.D.” under coronet and with floral and bird frame; symmetrical flower motif on each end. Broad…

  • Towel End, 19th century

    Towel end with deep border at bottom of three flower heads in drawn work with fine embroidered foliage detail, in white linen thread. Initials “I.A.D.” in symmetrical leaf-framed cartouche above.…

  • Man’s Shirt (Guatemala), 1925–50

    Long straight shirt made of two lengths of heavy white cotton with thin red stripes (two warps, three wefts). Very short narrow sleeves of red cloth with two wide bands…

  • Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950

    Huipil made of three lengths stitched together. Dark blue cotton cloth with double warps and double wefts covered in long red floats. Design of triangles and diamonds in blue, green,…

  • Perraje (shawl) (Guatemala), 1900–1955

    Dark blue weft-ribbed shawl with double warps and wefts. Jaspe pattern in close-set bands with geometric and abstract figurative design in white, red, yellow and green. Warps plaited into deep…

  • Textile (Guatemala), early 20th century

    Square with large plaid in shades of red and white with large central panel of close-set zigzags, stripes and small geometrical figures in shades of bright pink, green, lavender, white…

  • Skirt (Guatemala), 1925–50

    Windowpane red and blue plaid with broad horizontal bands in dark blue and white jaspe stripes with four repeating female figures. Both selvages have dark blue warps.

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