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Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 3-29572, described as Shawl; with broad red stripes separated by narrow multi-colored stripes; one end has short fringe; 60 cm x 258 cm including fringe. Materials, techniques; cotton; machine spun 2-ply yarn; predominately warp face plain weave. Context of use: labelled 24 x 102 3 varas hilo torcieto ( 3 yards cotton).
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 3-27366, described as shawl, cotton, warp stripes; red, purple, indigo; macrame at one end only; l. 1.64 M.
Hearst Museum object titled Shawl, accession number 3-30004, described as Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave; single-faced supp. weft brocading; one piece; warp ends cut and uncut, then plied together to create fringe on each end. 233.5 cm x 87 cm. Cotton: 2 singles in white, red; 4 singles in white; 3 two-ply in yellow, red. Cotton sedalina: 4 two-ply in green, purple; 5 two-ply in blue; 6 two-ply in red; 8 two-ply in yellow. Red warp stripes on white ground; occasional yellow and red yarns in otherwise white wefts. Supp. weft brocading in bands of geometric designs thourout entire piece. Warp ends twisted to create fringe. Made perraje from huipil design; wanted long huipil per M. Schevill. Iconography consts of stars birds, rain, and mountains.
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 3-29995, described as Treadle-loomed, twill weave; one piece; both warps and one side (wefts) selvage are cut, to create fringe. 61 cm x 25 cm. Native name and meaning: Perraje/Shawl. Materials, techniques: Cotton: 2 single in white, blue, and dark blue; 3 singles in red, possibly alizarin. Context of use: Collected by Miguel Hun, who donated it to the museum in 1991. Overall plaid appearance in "hound's tooth" design; warps and wefts on one side are knotted together and twisted into fringes. Red dye may be alizarin (Schevill). "Observe double-ikat patterning" (Hun). This is not true ikat; the twill weave with blue and white color change give the ikat effect. Iconography consists of diamonds, checker-boarded motifs create plaid.
Hearst Museum object titled Utility cloth, accession number 3-29195, described as Utility cloth/ tzut; narrow stripes of beige, green, red, white, etc. and one wide black stripe; two loom widths sewn together; warp face cotton; width 119 X length 182 cm. The name tzut is given to a variety of cloths. They vary in size. The two-width tzut is used both as a shawl and as a container for goods bought in rural markets where packaging is not supplied by the merchants.

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