Blouse with image of the Virgen de Guadalupe

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This blouse (blusa in Spanish) is made of factory cotton. A striking feature of this blouse is the large card with elaborate embroidery on the chest and back. Embroidery is a decorative technique where extra threads are added to the fabric. \The wrinkled strip below is rather short and open at the sides. The shoulder pass is not embroidered. The blouse runs from the armpit to the top slightly slanted inwards, on this slanting line are armpit pieces and sleeves sewn.\nThe neckline is wide and rectangular and with red cotton reworked. The sleeves have a decorative border of rosettes between leaves embroidered in red cotton, and a large motif of stylized plants, embroidered in green. The embroidery on the front and back show two different scenes. On one side the "Virgen de Guadalupe" is depicted, among roses and birds, with a figure at her feet with her hands raised, probably in prayer position. The other side shows a rider on horseback, among flowers and animals. And the letters B.M. in a corner. These embroideries are green, with a red zigzag border at the top and bottom.‖ In December 1531, about ten years after the conquest of the Aztec empire, Juan Diego had an encounter with the virgin María on the hill Tepeyac, where the locals worshipped a mother goddess. The woman had a dark complexion and spoke in Nahuatl (the language of the Aztecs). The bishop did not want to believe that Juan Diego had seen the Virgin Mary and asked for tangible proof. Juan Diego found flowering roses at the place of the encounter. Back at the bishop's house, he took out the roses; miraculously, a portrait of María appeared in his cloak. Nowadays (2009) la Virgen de Guadalupe is strongly venerated all over México.