Abstract
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi’s Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820 (2021) is the first broad survey that highlights some essential threads in the social and material history of textile production and usage within the context of the Catholic Church in Spanish America. This review highlights the publication’s contribution in interdisciplinary research in the field.
Highlights
Members of the clergy or religious statuary are dressed in cloth as well as furniture, altars and walls
Stan eld-Mazzi contends that cloth ‘was the single most important material and visual feature of Catholic church interiors in Spanish America’ and successfully supports this claim with wide-ranging examples of church textiles’ dominant role in colonial interiors
Clothing the New World Church draws attention to the underlying fact that the manufacture and maintenance of these cloths was a collaborative project shared between Spanish colonisers and diverse groups of Indigenous people across former Spanish colonial territories
Summary
Maya Stan eld-Mazzi’s Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, – is the rst broad survey to highlight several essential threads in the social and material history of textile production and usage within the context of the Catholic Church in Spanish America. Stan eld-Mazzi contends that cloth ‘was the single most important material and visual feature of Catholic church interiors in Spanish America’ and successfully supports this claim with wide-ranging examples of church textiles’ dominant role in colonial interiors.1 The book’s chapters are organised by textile type: woven silk, embroidery, featherwork, tapestry, and painted cotton and lace.
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