Woman's blouse (Huipil), c. 1990, 27 1/2 x 25 3/4 in. ( x cm), Cotton; embroidery, Guatemala, 20th century, Santa Apolonia is one of many villages in which the weaving tradition has died out. In its place, Maya women now embellish their textiles with geometric patterns embroidered on commercial cotton cloth. So keen is their regard for fine weaving, however, that the women painstakingly recreate the look of single-face supplementary weft patterning. Each stitch is precisely placed to follow the weave of the ground cloth and tiny perpendicular stitches emulate the path of weft

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