Tortilla cloth. [FB 22/10/2013]

Collection type: Object
Description: Tortilla cloth. [FB 22/10/2013]
Long description: Tortilla cloth. The cloth is made from ikat resist dyed cotton. The textile is woven with green, pink and blue stripes and bands of blue and white geometric patterns. Both ends of the textile are finished with red twisted and knotted fringing. [FB 22/10/2013]
Geographical reference: Guatemala
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Guatemala; Totonicapán State
Cultural groups: Maya
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Dai Williams; PRM source Dai Williams
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1980
Date collected: By 1980
Acquisition information: Donated: 03/07/2013
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Ikat Resist Dyed
Dimensions: Width: max 487 mm, Length: max 630 mm including fringing, Length: max 562 mm excluding fringing
Object numbers: Accession number: 2012.104.6 Other numbers: 96 G126 81 28
Research and responses: Notes, names of villages given by donor. "28. Tortilla cloth, Totonicapan. Do not know village. Commercially produced ikat." [FB 28/10/2013]
Notes from Krystina Duess regarding a number of textiles donated by Dai WIlliams: "...Your 'Tortilla cloth from Totonicapan' looks like a section of cut up shawl..." [FB 28/03/2014]

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