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Bag face for a chuspa

late 19th century

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Carrying bag made from warp-faced plain weave in alternating stripes. Broad stripes of brown and gray flanking a central stripe with geometric pattern in red and white with two superimposed pencil stripes in pink and blue, green and yellow. Groups of pencil-stripes at outer edges. Wool warp, white cotton weft. Center stripe has paired white cotton warps in ground, pattern warp of dark red wool. Tubular embroidered wool edging. Pair of tassels in colored wools in each of four corners.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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