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Vintage Guna Mola Textiles
Item Details
A matching pair of mola cloth panels. Mola are shirt panels in the traditional dress of the Guna people in Panama and Columbia. These panels are made using hand-stitching, reverse appliqué, and embroidery of brightly colored fabric in striped patterns. These pieces feature non-objective patterns of scrolling, hooked lines in a palette of yellow and pale blue with a scarlet ground. They are unsigned and presented between panes of glass in steel blue metal frames with saw-tooth brackets to the versos for hanging.
Condition
- mild to moderate discoloration to each piece; some fraying and stitches coming loose throughout works; very light clouding to inside of glass.
Dimensions
23.75" W x 18.75" H x 1.25" D
- measures one frame; one textile measures 21.0" W x 16.0" H.
Item #
18WDC009-060
