Bag

Warp-faced fabrics with three or four selvedges are woven by women on the indigenous style loom, a staked-out horizontal ground loom, or an adjustable tension (body) loom. The technique and structure have pre-Conquest antecedents, and as in ancient times, the fabrics are used in their rectangular form without cutting or shaping. A very traditional type bag which is used by women to sow wheat.

Purchased from Esteban Huatta Cruz but made and used by his mother-in-law, Josepha Huatta Yucra.

sowing; agriculture

Plain colour areas or stripes are warp-faced plain weave. Alpaca yarns are z spun and plied 2-s. Warp-faced plain weave; construction is by folding and sewing a 4 selvedge rectangle on 2 sides. Closely spaced overcastting stitches form the side seams and at the bag mouth.

Bag, rectangular, with bands in grey and varying shades of brown. The vertical bands are flanked by narrow black and light brown stripes on a medium brown field. The sewn side seams and bag mouth are reinforced by overcasting.