Poncho

Warp-faced weave with natural red dye. Attached fringe with ancient decorative stitch joining the two halves.

Dark brown, rectangular, woven wool poncho with a neck slit in the centre. Constructed of two rectangular panels sewn together in the middle. The stitch that connects the panels is a zigzag made up of long sections of red, turquoise, and purple yarn. Weave texture is tight and un-patterned, with two horizontal red stripes across the top and bottom of each of the front and back rectangular panels. The red stripes are about 6 cm wide and have a dark blue line through the centre. The outer edge is a separately woven red strip with a red yarn fringe, stitched on with red yarn.