Wool yarn, glass beads (size 12) and three ply yarn

Finger woven wool yarn garters with alternating bands of red and green wool. Specifically, 'oblique interface' finger-weaving, which is a sort of braiding with many strands. The beads are a size 12, and of irregular shape, perhaps indicating an earlier date (CW). The beaded strands are secured at the unbeaded-fringe end, where the width is most consistent, and the garter is woven down from that end. The width starts to compress toward the finishing end, and the beaded strands are then plaited into the yarn fringe (CW).

Glass beads have been integrated into the garters in a repetitive running diamond design. Beading in fringe appears on one side only on each.

The alternating lozenge/diamond pattern is a variation on the otter-tail pattern (CW). The beading on one side and not the other may indicate that the garters were originally a single sash, which was cut in half, and part of the cut ends unravelled to make the unbeaded fringe (DP).

Formally in the collection of Dennis Lessard, Santa Fe, New Mexico.