DepartmentTextiles-Hispano US

Embroidery

NameEmbroidery

Maker Policarpio Valencia

Date1925-1930?

Place madeEl Santo Nino, New Mexico, United States, North America

MediumCotton

Dimensions(not specified): 53 15/16 x 47 1/4 in. (137 x 120 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Historical Society of New Mexico

Object numberA5.2000.47

DescriptionButton-hole stitch embroidery using cotton string on a cotton textile. The embroidery covers the surface of the foundation textile almost entirely, although some of the background color is visible between stitches, for example, on the ends of the piece where orange stripes in the textile were used to organize these areas of the embroidered design. String colors: natural white, red-orange, brown, purple (now faded to gray). Design consists of amorphous shapes w/ concentric outlines in contrasting colors. There is a concentration of brown shapes in the center of the piece One end has the name of the artist in a band above the edge and the other end has "sobremesa antigua" in the same position. Old number B89/48