Embroidered coverlet (Colcha)

Doña Rosa Solís y Menéndez

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

White rectangular textile with frayed edges, featuring a colorful embroidered design. The design consists of vertical stripes in blue and red, adorned with flowers in yellow, blue, red, and green. Two figures are embroidered in the center: a woman on the left wearing a red dress with yellow and blue wavy patterns at the bottom and a man on the right dressed in a red jacket with gold trim, blue pants with a yellow stripe, and a black hat. The woman holds a basket-like object. The border of the textile features embroidered text in red, yellow, and blue, which reads: "LANO DE MIL SETECIENTOS OCHENTA Y FABRICA DE DOÑA ROSA SOLIS Y MENENDEZ EN MERIDA DE YUCATAN ANO DE MIL SETECIENTOS OCHENTA Y" The text wraps around the edges, meeting at the bottom. The background behind the textile is black.