Article Info

Article Title
The Arizona Openwork (Tonto) Shirt Project
Author
Carol James
Issue date
Spring 2016
Issue number
12
Issue topic
Cotton
Description
From a museum visit in 2013 grew a collaborative project: recreating the prehistoric cotton openwork sprang shirt found by amateur archaeologists 90 years earlier, dated to the 13th century A.D. The research and crafting process is documented in this article.
Article topic list
cotton, 2-ply, community, historical