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  2. Alfeñique - Wikipedia

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    Alfeñiques at the Feria del Alfeñique in Toluca.. Today, the main production center for alfeñique figures are Toluca, San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.Today, the paste is used to form hundreds of types of shapes which include rabbits, lions, ducks, doves, cows, bulls, donkeys, pigs, frogs, horses, deer, angels, skulls and coffins.

  3. Handcrafts and folk art in Michoacán - Wikipedia

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    Cotton is spun and woven mostly to create clothing and linens—including dresses, shirts, blouses, jackets, tablecloths, table runners, napkins, and bedspreads. The most representative work in cotton comes from Patzcuaro and Uruapan, as well as Zacán and Tócuaro. [2] [41] Other notable cotton work is that of the Nahuas in the coastal areas ...

  4. Cash crop - Wikipedia

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    A cotton ball. Cotton is a significant cash crop. According to the National Cotton Council of America, in 2014, China was the world's largest cotton-producing country with an estimated output of about one hundred million 480-pound bales. [1] A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.

  5. Handcrafts and folk art in the State of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    In the State of Mexico, most woven pieces are wool or cotton/wool. Textiles include pieces woven from a cotton/wool mix, often decorated with multicolored flower and animal designs arranged geometrically on the cloth. The decorations used to have religious symbolism, but this as mostly been lost. [2] [9] [10]

  6. Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods - Wikipedia

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    Once the bobbin is full, the hobby spinner either puts on a new bobbin, or forms a skein, or balls the yarn. A skein is a coil of yarn twisted into a loose knot. Yarn is skeined using a niddy noddy or other type of skein -winder. Yarn is rarely balled directly after spinning, it will be stored in skein form, and transferred to a ball only if ...

  7. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    These sheep were well-suited to the climate in Navajo lands, and that produced a useful long-staple wool. [19] Hand-spun wool from these animals was the main source of yarn for Navajo blankets until the 1860s, when the United States government forced the Navajo people to relocate at Bosque Redondo and seized their livestock.

  8. Teotitlán del Valle - Wikipedia

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    The earliest weavings used cotton and ixtle and utilized the backstrap loom. Teotitlán would pay its financial tribute to the Aztecs in weavings. [ 3 ] More modern weaving was introduced here by Dominican bishop Juan López Dezárate around 1535 when the bishop brought sheep and treadle looms to the area.

  9. Textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Cotton is shipped to mills in large 500-pound bales. When the cotton comes out of a bale, it is all packed together and still contains vegetable matter. The bale is broken open using a machine with large spikes, called an opener. To fluff up the cotton and remove the vegetable matter, the cotton is sent through a picker or a similar machine.