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huipil
c.1975
A huipil (woman’s tunic) made of four panels of vertical red and white stripes with occasional blue/orange/green stripes. The upper area supplementary weave of multicoloured squares and diamonds.
sash
c.1975
A red sash with two blue and white central stripes and fringes. Small supplementary weave geometric motifs of diamonds, crosses and lattice are present only on the areas that would hang down.
back strap loom and yarns
1980
A back strap loom in several pieces, comprising of warp threads holding an incomplete geometric weaving, with bamboo and carved wood dowel support bars and shed or heddle sticks or rods; a back strap ...
trousers
c.1975
A pair of man’s trousers in red and white stripes with orange/blue/purple thin stripes. It is made with two panels per leg and a two part gusset, with a wide front opening and no fastenings. All c...
huipil
c.1975
A huipil (woman’s tunic) of multicoloured horizontal stripes, with more white stripes lower down. It is made up of one panel of weaving, joined at one side.
shirt
c.1975
A man’s long-sleeved shirt in red with intermittent thin vertical stripes in orange, blue, purple, green and white. Pieces are stitched together by hand, including using green thread. The front an...
shirt
c.1975
A long sleeved man’s shirt in vertical thin red and blue on white stripes, with two thick red stripes down the front and back centre. The shirt is made up of two pieces of weaving, going over the s...
huipil
c.1975
A huipil (woman’s tunic), made of three panels of vertical red and white stripes (with thin blue and orange additional stripes), with upper sections of supplementary weave horizontal red, blue and g...