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randumdailymemo: Bedspread (Colcha), 1786Embroidered by Doña Rosa Solís y MenéndezMexican (Mérida/Yucatán)Colored silks on weft-faced rib weave, cotton ground This spread was probably part of a wedding trousseau. Present in textiles of Europe and the Americas at this time, the embroidered pattern of parallel ribbons entwined with scrolling vines found its way onto Mexican ceramics as well. For a look at colcha in the America’s, check out http://www.spanishcolonial.org/, a museum chronicling the arts during the Spanish Colonization in the West. -found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

randumdailymemo:

Bedspread (Colcha), 1786
Embroidered by Doña Rosa Solís y Menéndez
Mexican (Mérida/Yucatán)
Colored silks on weft-faced rib weave, cotton ground

This spread was probably part of a wedding trousseau. Present in textiles of Europe and the Americas at this time, the embroidered pattern of parallel ribbons entwined with scrolling vines found its way onto Mexican ceramics as well. For a look at colcha in the America’s, check out http://www.spanishcolonial.org/, a museum chronicling the arts during the Spanish Colonization in the West.

-found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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