The white- and red-ground elibelinde
(hands-on-hips) motifs that comprise the decorative elements on this
piece are unusual for a storage sack (chuval). When sacks of this
type are decorated, the figures are more commonly geometric. The
incomplete end of this piece would originally have included a pair
of yellow and light brown stripes to match the complete end. In use,
the two ends and one short side would have been sewn together, with
the other side left open. The chuval would then have been
positioned with the open side up and the stripes running vertically,
as seen in plate #6.
BRM
Additional Images
Detail 1
Detail 2
Structural Data:
Size:
4’ 1” x 3’ 11”
Overview:
Bands of weft-faced plain weave, wool, Z
singles; and bands of slit tapestry weave with 2:1 interlacing,
wool, Z singles; (white patterning is Z3S, 2 of ivory cotton, 1 of
ivory wool); 56 per vertical inch
