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Corte #20 -- Girl's Double Ikat

Manufacturer: N/A

SKU: G-T-C-20

Price: $35.00
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Most of the skirts or cortes used by the Maya women of Guatemala are made on treadle looms in the large textile-producing villages of the western highlands of southern Guatemala. Certain designs are village-specific, but it is now more common for the woman to choose a skirt fabric which suits her personal aesthetic. Some skirts are also made in the particular village for use in that village. As used, the two ends of long panels 35-50 inches wide are seamed together to form a tube. The woman steps inside this tube and folds the material in a complicated manner to form the skirt. This results in a fairly thick and heavy garment.

This skirt is a single panel of finely woven material featuring ikat or jaspe designs in both directions. The sides of the cloth are very nicely selvage-finished, but the ends are not stitched together to form the tube. Overall size is 33.5 inches wide and 71 inches long. The weave is weft-faced plain weave with simple weft-ikat and larger warp-ikat figures. This material appears to be 100% cotton. In the photos below, the second is a closeup of the first. In both pictures, the weft is in the horizontal direction.

Condition: excellent, lightly used but presenting no holes or tears, the selvage edge shows a few loose threads.

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