Product Description
Handwoven Vintage Traditional Cotzal Huipil, Authentic Guatemalan Yellow Floral Blouse
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Width: 32"
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Length: 21”
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..
The traditional Cotzal Guatemala Huipil has small stylized birds are meant to be doves, meant to mate for life and to live in houses with family so long as the households are peaceful.
