Dress Fabric
1900-1940 (made)
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Dress fabric of double ikat cotton. White warp patterned-dyed with a resist which kept areas white when the rest was dyed blue. There are bands of red and dark blue weft. The red has no ikat pattern but the dark blue bands have patterns reserved in white.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Double ikat cotton |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of double ikat cotton, Guatemala, 1900-1940 |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of double ikat cotton. White warp patterned-dyed with a resist which kept areas white when the rest was dyed blue. There are bands of red and dark blue weft. The red has no ikat pattern but the dark blue bands have patterns reserved in white. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Mary Kirby |
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| Accession number | CIRC.328-1964 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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