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Colcha (blanket/coverlet) from the Escuela al Campo
Object/Artifact
A coarse, napped off-white/natural (undyed) textile, photographed folded. The surface is soft and brushed/fleecy over a loosely woven, slightly crinkled ground; a hemmed edge is visible. No decoration, border, stripe, or applied label is visible.
2025.6.1
Used by Mirta Suquet Martínez during the Escuela al Campo.
The Martínez Suquet family collection
2025.6
Mirta Suquet
Gift
Maker: Unidentified — no visible label or marks. Plausibly Cuban state textile production / state-issued bedding for the program (inferred, not confirmed). Date: No date appears on the object. By its stated association with the Escuela al Campo program (established mid-1960s; a major educational policy by 1966), it belongs to the program era and is consistent with 1959–1990. The textile itself bears no date, and the program continued past 1990, so an exact date cannot be confirmed. Place of Origin: Cuba — inferred from the use-context (issued bedding for a Cuban educational program); not marked on the object.
twin size
Fabric
Materials: Apparently cotton, undyed (natural/cream), with a napped surface. Fiber content not confirmed from the image and could be cotton or a cotton blend — flagged. Technique: Woven textile with a raised, napped/brushed surface; hemmed edge (apparent).
Good
Mirta Suquet
owner
Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use, acquisition
The EAC sent secondary and pre-university students to rural camps for roughly 45 days each school year to perform agricultural labor; it later expanded into the ESBEC boarding schools (Escuelas Secundarias Básicas en el Campo), intensifying in the 1970s, and was phased out after 2011. A colcha like this would have formed part of a student's issued bedding at the rural albergues (dormitories/camps).