Toltec Captive Narrative (Part 2)

The slowly rising hills support a constructed system that influences and forms to the conditions. As the Mayans constructed their own landscapes, mountainous structures rise along that skyline, while platforms elevate articulated constructions. Valleys and plateaus are utilized to their potential for living and structure organization. The system of constructions and voids insinuate functionality and detail describes the culture of inhabitants.
The insight provided from detail is potent with ideas needed to construct a society. Preserved in a presumed sacrificial well, a fabric remnant was discovered. Due to the fragile nature of such a material, it is very rare to find such an artifact. It is a cotton piece, woven, brocaded, dyed. It is an irregular piece, frayed. However the brocaded pattern is still dense with fibers. The pattern illustrates a fraction of the pattern that originally existed across the whole clothing piece at one time.
The fabric piece will complete a larger garment. It will wrap itself gracefully and structurally around the client. My client is a Toltec warrior captured by the Uxmal military. The garment that my fabric remnant came from was given to the Toltec in preparation for the sacrifice. The Toltec is kept in a holding chamber at first. Here he reflects his last moments in this world. The fabric he wears was the last experience he had with Earth. When the hour came for the sacrifice the captive would be lead out of the cell and into a larger room where the king and five high priests of the priest counsel would pray that the sacrifice be accepted by the god Chac for rain to bring a bountiful harvest in the recent famine. In procession the Toltec is escorted by warriors as the priests follow. The group follows along the edge of the Great Platform and down into the central valley where the sacrificial well awaits the Toltec and the elite and citizens alike come to view the hopeful change of their fortune.

Artifact: Fabric Remnant

The slowly rising hills support a constructed system that influences and forms to the conditions. As the Mayans constructed their own landscapes, mountainous structures rise along that skyline, while platforms elevate articulated constructions. Valleys and plateaus are utilized to their potential for living and structure organization. The system of constructions and voids insinuate functionality and detail describes the culture of inhabitants.
The insight provided from detail is potent with ideas needed to construct a society. Preserved in a presumed sacrificial well, a fabric remnant was discovered. Due to the fragile nature of such a material, it is very rare to find such an artifact. It is a cotton piece, woven, brocaded, dyed. It is an irregular piece, frayed. However the brocaded pattern is still dense with fibers. The pattern illustrates a fraction of the pattern that originally existed across the whole clothing piece at one time.
The fabric piece will complete a larger garment. It will wrap itself gracefully and structurally around the client. Due to its location when found, the artifact must have belonged to a woman sacrificed and left in the well. The client was wearing the garment as a part of the last experience of life on Earth. It was a nicer garment of a lower woman in society. As the sacrifice, the woman chose to represent herself properly in this garment. The sacrifice would either, grant clemency or continue to rule the world in the minds of the Mayans. This garment was properly adorned by this woman in her time of accepting death as the sacrifice.
The construction would provide a confined reflection area, proper for self realization and concentration. Peripherally, a meeting area for a small groups will provide gathering space in support of the counsels’’ decision.

Artifact: Fabric - Just Blogging Thoughts

Many artifacts are made from natural materials. The fabric is made of cotton. It was found preserved in a sacrificial well in Chichen Itza. It is woven together. The spaces between the threads are large, due to it being worn and old or maybe it is a very small piece and the camera is zoomed in very close. Edges are frayed in an irregular pattern; however it is less frayed when the darker sections meet the edge. The pattern is just a fragment. You never see a portion of the whole pattern. You can tell from the piece that the pattern is regular and repeating. It reminds me of a tortoise shell. The gaps between the threads are not visible in the darker areas that form the pattern. Did the weaver use more threads in these areas to create the pattern? Is the pattern brocaded on and thus as time progressed it did not deteriorate as much or deterioration is less visible due to the density of threads. The caption from the book I got this artifact from states that the fabric was dyed. Was the pattern dyed? Was the base fabric woven, and then dyed, the pattern sown or woven in? Was the base fabric woven, pattern included, and then was the whole thing dyed? This remnant could be a fragment of a large garment with this pattern totally saturating the entire thing. It could also have been just a small detailed piece of a larger plain garment.

Artifact: Textile/Fabric Remnant

This is a fabric fragment found at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. It was dated to the late classic or early post-classic period: 600-1200A.D. It is dyed cotton.

Textiles and fabrics can represent a culture in various ways as architecture does. Fabrics are manipulated in an structural and artistic way at a human scale. They can express culture, an era, and purpose/function.

Artifact picture and information from: MAYA Divine Kings of the Rainforest