Two Guatemalan Wedding Huipils
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Junius Bird examines two 19th-century wedding huipils from Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, from the Elsie McDougall collection, shown at the American Museum of Natural History for the Needle and Bobbin Club. The first is a sheer cotton plain-weave huipil with creped weft stripes, silk floss wrapped on the weft, Purpura shellfish-dyed purple cable-twist yarn, and twill stripes. The second is a brocaded cotton huipil with white and purple brocading. Bird compares these techniques (creped stripes, wrapped fibers, twill, brocading) with Peruvian and Maya evidence, including Cupisnique and Paracas textiles. Illustrated with plates; no weaving drafts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1953
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 11
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