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Huipil
The traditional costume for women of San Andrés Chicahuaxtla consists of a huipil, skirt, belt and blanket. The huipil is woven by hand on a hip loom and usually consists of three parts that are attached to each other. In the period that this huipil was made, the 1960's, this type of garment was decorated more colorfully than the ones shortly before, probably because colored cotton yarn became eas…
Type of item
- Object Type: main garments upper body
- main garments upper body
Date
- 1961
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1961
- 1961/1961
Provenance
- 1980-01-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/803978
- RV-5075-58
Format
- Technique: embroidery
- Embroidery
- embroidery
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- amber (fossil resin)
- yarn
- net
Year
- 1961
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z