Huipil

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Material: brown wool and embroidery thread.Technique: one lane, handwoven flat weave, embroidered with stem stitch and blanket stitch floss is woven into it.One lane is handwoven. Every 7 cm there is a deviant chain thread of thin white and blue threads, hardly visible. The cloth has four selvages.‖ Neck and armholes are hemmed with blanket stitch, with a green embroidery thread. Around this is embroidered a pink-orange and pink-green narrow zigzag line, and pink, green or orange stems (3 cm.) ending in a three fork.\Front and back is about 12 cm. below the neck a floss of 11 cm, consisting of thick bundles of loose red and green threads, six red-green plaits of three threads, and four bundles of red-pink-green-orange and white threads tightly wrapped with different colors, which hang free at the end in a small floss (2 cm.).\According to Cordry, these huipils are normally woven in three strips on a hip loom.