Huipil Blouse from Guatemala, Embroidered Bird Motifs, Blue, Multi Color, Authentic, Vintage, Handmade, Collection
Vintage Huipil from Guatemala
Huipil Guatemala from San Juan Cotzal
Width: 37"
Length: 23”
This huipil is beautiful with its red and multicolor tones. It features the traditional animal motifs found in the huipiles of Guatemala. The colors of the birds are pink, white, blue, teals, and greens. The collar and sleeve openings are trimmed in blue.
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 town of Rabinal boasts a large, colonial-era baroque church. Alongside the church is a small municipal museum, with exhibits on the local culture (particularly native healing techniques) and a section dealing with the massacres of the 1980s. Various pre-Hispanic archaeological sites are also located in the surrounding hills.
The town has an annual fiesta patronal which takes place in late January each year and is famous for its dances, including one that recreates a legendary battle between the Achi and the K'iche Maya, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural monument, known as The Rabinal Achí.
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Vintage Huipil from Guatemala
Huipil Guatemala from San Juan Cotzal
Width: 37"
Length: 23”
This huipil is beautiful with its red and multicolor tones. It features the traditional animal motifs found in the huipiles of Guatemala. The colors of the birds are pink, white, blue, teals, and greens. The collar and sleeve openings are trimmed in blue.
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 town of Rabinal boasts a large, colonial-era baroque church. Alongside the church is a small municipal museum, with exhibits on the local culture (particularly native healing techniques) and a section dealing with the massacres of the 1980s. Various pre-Hispanic archaeological sites are also located in the surrounding hills.
The town has an annual fiesta patronal which takes place in late January each year and is famous for its dances, including one that recreates a legendary battle between the Achi and the K'iche Maya, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural monument, known as The Rabinal Achí.