Shawl

NameShawl

Artist Arturo Hernandez Quero

CultureMexican

Date2014

Place madeOaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America

MediumWool, cochineal dye

Dimensions93 5/16 × 25 3/16 in. (237 × 64 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, museum purchase, A.2015.1.3

Terms

value (economic concept)

Object numberA.2015.1.3

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionWoven with interspersed bands of open and closed weaving. The strands have been dyed with cochineal that produces a rose color. Both ends of the shawl have several strands knotted together with other strands forming a grid motif that transforms into the normal fringe at the ends.