DepartmentTextiles-Hispano US
Colcha embroidery on sabanilla cloth
NameSabanilla
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Dateafter 1919
Place madeCarson, New Mexico, United States, North America
MediumWool
DimensionsOverall: 48 1/16 x 79 1/8 in. (122 x 201 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Historical Society of New Mexico, A5.1960.7
Object numberA5.1960.7
Collections
ProvenanceGift of Miss Mary Cabot Wheelwright prior to 1942.
DescriptionSupport, patched old plain weave homespun or sabanilla, from old woolsacks. Design, center, four large intertwined rattlesnakes. On four outer sides, four crucifixions with red corpus. In smaller scale, 14 penitentes in profile, four blue horses and eight pigions on very large scale. Clouds and four-pointed tan stars. Solidly embroidered all over in colcha stitch with light natural background. Yarns, handspun and Germantown, handspun of commercial dyes, ravelled from old blankets.
late 18th-19th century
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