Embroidered huipil

1934

Warp and weft: white factory cotton. Technique: combination of linen weaving and gauze weaving which results in a decorative striped pattern. Embroidery yarns: factory cotton (red and blue hilaza), factory wool (black, green, purple, pink, salmon pink, melon yellow, blue, fuchsia), mercerized cotton (yellow, pink, orange), brown floss.\Huipil consisting of three woven strips joined by a decorative stitch (randa, executed in red and blue). The huipil is embroidered over the entire surface in various decorative stitches, the middle part with a block of stylized floral motifs along the neckline, in the middle a large flower-vase motif, along the bottom stylized vines; the side parts with various animals (deer, birds, donkey, duck, eagle, lion, monkey), along the bottom stylized vines. Although the embroidery is executed in many colours, blue and red predominate.