Product Description
Hand-Woven Tecpan Guatemalan Vintage Flower & Bird Huipil, Authentic Blouse with Breast-feeding zipper.
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Width:34"
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Length: 28”
A woman may spend months weaving a single huipil when complex techniques or designs are required. Through the choices of design, material and finishing technique, information can be read about the weaver's birth-place, religious background, social position, weaving skill, and personality. Indigenous women can read the complex encoded messages in each other's huipiles at a glance..
Huipil from Tecpan, Guatemala. A motif of flowers with the universal diamond and birds.
