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Amazing huipil

this dress are 100 % made by hand this means that the embroidery and the fabric was create by hand and carefull


the region of this kind of dresses is like 11 hours aways from Oaxaca city is very important that you know that this is original desing from Oaxaca any kind of designer can´t say that is his own creation because this dresses is making in oaxaca for more than 400 years, please when you wear one of these pieces please keep in mind this.

the artisans who work with me are really well paid and i work hand by hand to increase the quality of life

The most important thing about this dress is the detail of the draw in it each figure is very complicated to create

and is very beatiful one of my favorites


measuraments:

Length 33 inches/ 84 cm

Chest all around 46 inches / 117 cm

Arm all around 16 inches /41cm

Neck all around 20 inches / 51 cm

Cleaning the cotton
Part of the cotton they use is from what they cultivate in the village. The cleaning of the cotton is a very long and meditative process. The weavers take out all the seeds and once it is cleaned, they have an special ‘bed' made of leaves where they put the cotton and hit it with two hotsell sticks to make the cotton soften. Once it is ready they start making the thread with a spinning tool. The brown cotton is called coyuchi (natural wild Oaxaca brown cotton).

Preparing the loom
Preparing the loom consists of measuring and tying on the warp threads, and making sure all threads and parts are aligned properly. The weavers count all the thread to have the right measurement for what they what to weave.

Weaving
The women use backstrap looms. The sit and usually tie up one side of their loom from a three and the other goes to her back so she can manage the applied tensión on the loom. A kaftan (huipil) is created by passing a bobbin through the warp threads, shifting the warp threads with the machete (a tool made with wool by a man in the town which has a blade shape), and repeating - the strongest is the hit the more structure the huipil has. As the design calls for different colors, thread with individual colors are passed through the warp for length required to make the patterns and motifs needed. Sometimes dozens of thread pieces with different colors are in play at one time.

Final Touches
When a piece is finished, the artisans cut the textile created from the reaming threads to remove it from the loom. As they have a large panel of textile, the second part is to sew the panels together. The time it takes depends on the number of panels and length of the panel. A single panel could take from 3 days to 1 week. The three panel styles take almost two weeks. The weavers sew the panels by hand with needle and with an special macramé technique. The piece is then washed very carefully and with nautral soap then dried ironed.

NATURAL DYES
Purple tones
This area of Mexico is famous for using sea-snail purple dye, squeezed from these mollusks after they have been taken off rocks in the sea. Garments made where this dye has been used are very difficult to find and very sought after. The dye is prepared from the purpura patula pansa, a species of sea-snail, picked off the rocks of our coastline at low tide during the winter months. When the dyers squeeze or blow on the mollusks, they give off a foamy secretion which is rubbed onto a skein of cotton. Although it is initially colorless, contact with the air turns it yellow, green, and ultimately purple. The snails are put back on the rocks after this process, which explains why this resource has not been exhausted after so many centuries.

Red tones
Cochineal is a parasitic insect that lives on nopal cactus. It is a very laborious process to cultivate and harvest cochineal for use in dyeing. While some weavers have a small amount of the live bugs, it usually is purchased from a professional grower. The insects look like white spots when alive and small grey pellets when dead. Before adding them to boiling water, they are ground to a fine powder on the metate.

Blue tones
Indigo is one of the more complicated dyes to prepare. Dehydrated indigo cake is usually bought from growers in the Istmo region of Oaxaca. From this state, it takes a minimum of 3 days to prepare before it is ready to dye yarn. Steps include grinding the cake into powder, then adding it and muitle leaves to filtered wood ash water. All steps must be carefully monitored for Ph and other factors.



please be patience where are in the south of Mexico sometimes the delivery takes more time

Aprox 3-4 weeks to any part in the world

let me know if you need more information



please be patience where are in the south of Mexico sometimes the delivery takes more time

Aprox 3-4 weeks to any part in the world

let me know if you need more information