Name/Title
embroidered trimEntry/Object ID
2025.1.50Description
A length of narrow decorative ribbon/trim on a white ground patterned in green, wound into a loose coil. The design runs lengthwise as a continuous floral vine — multi-petaled blossoms with leaves and connecting stems in green. The band has finished woven selvedges along both edges and cut, frayed ends with loose green and white threads trailing from one end. The reverse (visible where the coil turns) shows the pattern in reverse colorway with weft floats, consistent with a figured woven ribbon. It reads as a cut length or remnant of yardage rather than a finished article.Use
Sewing materials belonging to María A. Arús Caraballo and to Mirta Martínez FortezaCollection
The Cabrera Arús family collection, María A. Arús Caraballo collection, The Martínez Suquet family collection, Mirta Martínez Forteza collectionMade/Created
Notes
MAKER: Unknown; unmarked. No selvedge lettering, label, or maker's mark is present.
DATE / PERIOD: Not marked; undetermined. Decorative woven floral trim of this kind is broadly twentieth-century; the sheened green pattern wefts (suggesting rayon or mercerized cotton) are consistent with a mid-twentieth-century date, but this is an estimate.
ORIGIN: Place of manufacture undetermined (no country-of-origin mark). Acquisition: Cuba.Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
María A. Arús CaraballoNotes
ownerPerson or Organization
Mirta Martínez FortezaRelated Places
Place
City
HavanaCountry
CubaRegion
Caribbean, Central AmericaNotes
purchasePlace
State/Province
Pinar del RíoCountry
CubaRegion
Caribbean, Central AmericaResearch Notes
Notes
The cut ends and retained loose threads suggest a remnant kept for future sewing rather than a finished item, an inference consistent with a household practice of saving usable trimmings but not separately documented here.Created By
María A. Cabrera ArúsCreate Date
September 22, 2025Updated By
María A. Cabrera ArúsUpdate Date
September 1, 2026
