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1931 Description: Guatemalan or European (Swiss) 1975 Description: Guatemala. In some case, if one is familiar with the character of jaspe patterns and professional weaving centres in Guatemala, it is possible to identify the villages where the perrajes (shawls) jaspeados are woven. The majority are woven on foot looms and are sold by merchants in all the village markets. There are many professional weaving centres described by L de J Osborne in 'Indians Crafts of Guatemala ans San Salvador' (University of Oklahoma Press, 1965 pp. 46-47 and pp. 112-114). Mrs Osborne says that San Cristobel Totonicapan is known for its multi-coloured jaspe and that Mazatenango is famed for its shawls with jaspe decoration and hand-knotted fringes. She also says that jaspe fabrics were so popular during colonial days that they were used to dress the statues of Christian saints. This shawl, because of its rich pure silk composition, was perhaps woven for a church or, more likely, for a Spanish woman in colonial times or for a wealthy Indian woman. Certainly this shawl was woven for trade or by commission. Krystyna Deuss, Director of the Guatemalan Indian Centre, London (personal communication 1996): 'This shawl was woven on a foot-loom in Salcaja, one of Guatemala's first centres of tie-dyeing.' Note (2000): To me this looks like an ikat wrap from Western Asia, from either Turkey or Syria. The multi-coloured side borders are typical. However, Turkish and Syria wraps are seldom woven with a warp fringe.