Guatemalan Woven Textile

Accession Number: TR8616-30

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Label: 12-86, Guatemala, Conley
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This textile is made of two pieces of hand-woven cotton fabric in a red and black pinstripe (each measuring 13 ½” x 24”) butted together lengthwise and hand-sewn to each other with a repeating pattern of purple, white, peach, lavender, and green wool. On each piece of striped fabric there is an 11” section woven with wool weft in a pattern composed of small circles, dots, and stripes in green, white, peach, lavender, and yellow on a maroon ground. Two sides of the textile are selvage. The other two are hand-hemmed and finished with a blanket stitch. At each of the four corners there is a handmade tassel of maroon wool. Three of the tassels also have a decorative element made of white wool. On the fourth, this element is maroon.

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A brick was washed and wrapped in several layers of newspaper. A T-shaped pattern was drafted and a used to cut a piece from the textile. This piece was then wrapped around the brick and hand sewn in place to form the doorstop/bookend.

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The accession number has been embroidered on one end of the doorstop/bookend.