cloth
- Museum number
- Am1988,08.159.a
- Description
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Blouse section (Spanish "tira bordada") (one of a set of three); neck sections only; rectangle of open-mesh embroidery textile (cuadrillé in Spanish) with panels embroidered in running stitch using commercial yarn; design features red stylized flowers bordered either side by three wavy lines.
- Production date
- 1980s
- Dimensions
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Length: 15 centimetres
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Width: 53 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This object shows how the embroidered sections are created. The purchaser can then attach these sections to the body of the blouse. See Garcia et al. La Magia de los Hilos: Arte y Tradicíon en el Textil de Veracruz. Xalapa, Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana, 1995 and Cordry, Donald and Dorothy. Mexican Indian Costumes. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1968 for similar textiles.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1988
- Acquisition notes
- Cost for all three pieces (a-c)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1988,08.159.a