Dovetail Join

GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A join formed when discontinuous elements from adjacent areas turn back alternately around the element of the opposite set that is their common boundary.

Excerpt from
Ann Rowe, “Technical Glossary for Textiles,” in Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks, edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1996): 467-469, from Irene Emery, The Primary Structures of Fabrics (Washington D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1966, 2009): 80.

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apply to objects where description contains dovetail


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General Description
A join formed when discontinuous elements from adjacent areas turn back alternately around the element of the opposite set that is their common boundary.

Excerpt from
Ann Rowe, “Technical Glossary for Textiles,” in Andean Art at Dumbarton Oaks, edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1996): 467-469, from Irene Emery, The Primary Structures of Fabrics (Washington D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1966, 2009): 80.

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@Higgins
*Arts of the Americas
~American Indian
textiles (visual works): AAT: 300014063
*Latin American Art
weaving: AAT: 300053642
.glossary
textile materials: AAT: 300231565
dovetailed tapestry (process): AAT: 300228510
dovetail join (textile weaving processes and techniques): DMA
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materials_and_techniques-0095.xml.nores