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  • Textile (Laos), 1900–1950

    Three bands of various cloth weaves: plain cloth top border, plain cloth with weft ikat in center band, fancy compound cloth lower border. Wide stright tubular skirt made up of…

  • 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.

  • Huipil (uncut) (Guatemala), 1900–1950

    Square panel made of three lengths of plain cloth, stitched together side by side, each with supplementary weft patterning in closely set horizontal rows of stylized human and bird figures.…

  • Textile (Guatemala), 1925–50

    Square panel made of three breadths of plain weave, brocaded. Closely set horizontal rows of stylized human and bird figures. Large dots brocaded in thick multi-ply cotton yarns in white,…

  • Textile (Guatemala), 1925–50

    Plaid with narrow blue stripes on a red ground with wide bands of jaspe patterning in a geometric design. Two narrow yellow vertical stripes run through the largest areas of…

  • Huipil (Guatemala), 1900–1950

    Undyed cotton huipil with triple warps and triple wefts. Group of narrow stripes up center front and back formed by joined inner selvages. Deep band of brocaded and embroidered decoration…

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