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worn by women

Description

Square shaped cotton shawl with hand sewn centre seam. At each end warp threads are knotted into a fringe with blue tassels attached. The design consists of three rows of multi-coloured double-faced brocade floral designs, separated by narrow bands of white single-faced brocade. Smaller floral bands are bounded by multi-coloured single face stripes at each end. The colours are pink, blue, red, green, yellow and purple on a green ground.

Specific Techniques

Woven by a woman on a back strap loom. Weft-faced plain weave with double faced discontinuous supplementary weft, and single faced continuous supplementary weft. The centre seam is hand sewn. Warp threads are tied in alternating knots, and blue tassels are tied to fringe.

History Of Use

A tzute is used in many ways, as a shawl, as a sling to carry a baby, to wrap and carry goods, or on a woman's head as protection from the sun. This may have been made for tourist sale. The floral motif is not traditional but taken from European embroidery samplers (Emery and Fiske).