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2. Huipil - Wikipedia

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   Traditional huipils, especially ceremonial ones, are usually made with fabric woven on a backstrap loom and are decorated with designs woven into the fabric, embroidery, ribbons, lace, and more. However, some huipils are also made from commercial fabric. A huipil can vary in length from a short blouse to a garment long enough to reach the floor ...

3. Textiles of Mexico - Wikipedia

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   Embroidered panel by Virginia Sanchez de Cornelio of Oaxaca Embroidered blouses from the La Huasteca region of Hidalgo. One of the most distinctive aspects of indigenous handcrafted textiles is the use of embroidery. Indigenous motifs found on garments range from geometric patterns, zig-zag, spirals, moons, crosses and stepped frets. Thin cloth ...

4. Textiles of Oaxaca - Wikipedia

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   Traditional clothing items among the peoples of Oaxaca include the huipil, a women's blouse constructed from several panels; the ceñidor, a type of sash among the Mazatec; and the paño, a Chinantec head covering. Handcrafted Oaxacan textiles employ plainweave, brocade patterns, gauze weave. [6]

5. Maya textiles - Wikipedia

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   Maya textiles (k’apak) are the clothing and other textile arts of the Maya peoples, indigenous peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize. Women have traditionally created textiles in Maya society , and textiles were a significant form of ancient Maya art and religious beliefs .

6. Alebrije - Wikipedia

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   Through the 1960s and to the 1980s, embroidered shirts, blouses and dresses were still a well-received craft from Tilcajete, [19] but by the end of the 1980s, most families were involved in carving alebrijes. [24] Today, the carving of alebrijes is the economic base of Tilcajete. [23]

7. Hats, t-shirts and dolls reflect outgoing Mexican president's ...

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   Souvenirs bearing the image of 70-year-old Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sell like T-shirts at a Taylor Swift concert. The populist López Obrador, best known by his nickname ...