serape
- Museum number
- Am1996,10.18
- Description
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Sarape; cotton warp and wool weft, with finger-knotted warp fringing. Woven on a back-strap loom. Diamond in centre with four smaller diamonds within, predominately blue with red, yellow and orange centres. Main field consists of blue and black striped lozenges with white zig-zag pattern. Border is black with multi-coloured diagonal pattern. At each fringed edge is striped strip of black, blues, reds, orange and white.
- Production date
- 1900 (circa?)
- Dimensions
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Length: 230 centimetres (with fringes)
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Length: 196 centimetres
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Width: 118 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited in the British Museum BP Exhibition Showcase: 'Mexican Textiles' (1997)?
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Acquisition notes
- Majority of collection sold to the Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City. Collection made by vendor's father whilst diplomat in Mexico, 1902-1906.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1996,10.18
