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Late classic sarape
Date:	Circa 1870-1880

“The crosses with the black tips are really cool. For the zigzags, the weaver did three turn-arounds of yarn for each tiny step, so it’s not a smooth diagonal. The weaver got much better as she went along.” —Barbara Ornelas

“The weaver used large amounts of red yarn that she unraveled from imported cloth. She tripled the thin raveled threads to equal the weight of her handspun white and indigo-dyed yarns. She also used three kinds of warp (foundation) yarn, which is rare compared to the prevalence of handspun wool in most blankets.” —Ann Hedlund

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Tapestry weave, interlocked joins

1.37 x 1.88 m
74.016 x 53.937 in.

Catalog No. E-2270

ASM E-2270. Collected by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morgan Wood; donated by Mrs. Wood (Nan S. Wood), 1946.

Function	Fiber	Type	Ply-Spin-Twist			Color	Dye	Count *
Warp	Wool	Commercial	3	z	S	Blue-Green	Vegetal	10
Warp	Wool	Handspun	--	Z	--	White	None	10
Warp	Wool	Handspun	--	Z	--	Dk Brown	None	10
Weft	Wool	Raveled	3	Z	--	Red	Cochineal+Lac?	66
Weft	Wool	Handspun	--	Z	--	Dk Blue	Indigo	61
Weft	Wool	Handspun	--	Z	--	White	None	61
Ecord	Wool	Commercial	3(3	z	S)Z	Red	Cochineal+Lac?	2
* threads/inch