Faja
Made early 2000s. Woven on the backstrap loom, this wine-coloured woman's sash is embellished with brocaded designs along approximately half its length. When the belt is wrapped around the wearer's waist, securing her huipil and skirt, only the decorative section is on view. The brocaded designs, similar to those seen on traditional styles of huipil, were achieved with supplementary weft threads. Almost no trace of the brocading shows on the underside of the cloth. The warp was wound directly round the end bars of the loom. Although the warp ends have been cut, they remain unworked. (In most places, the severed warp-ends of sashes are knotted, braided or twisted).
Collected 2007
Collected 2007
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 185/2008/5
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Collection Area Region
- CENT
- Material
- cottonwool
- Common Name
- faja
- Simple Name
- sash
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-)
- Production Town
- Santa Catarina Palopó
- Production County
- Sololá
- Production Country
- Guatemala
- Production Date
- c 2002
- Production Year High
- 2000
