Huipil

Vrouwenkleding in San Juan Copala bestaat uit een handgeweven “huipil”, rok en gordel. De “huipiles” die de vrouwen dragen zijn vrij lang en worden los over de rok hangend gedragen of de zoom wordt tot aan het middel opgerold. Tijdens feesten dragen de vrouwen twee of meer “huipiles”, waarvan enkele opgerold, waardoor de onderste exemplaren ook bewonderd kunnen worden. Handspun brown cotton ('coyuchi') covered with multi-coloured embroidery. Acquired 1963 in Oaxaca City, Oax. from Mexican middleman Dimensions: L: 113 cm W: 95 cm Description: Handspun brown cotton ('coyuchi'), plain weave, with thin white weft stripes. Cross bands, predominantly red with some pink, orange and yellow, of commercial yarn, are embroidered all over the garment. The places where the three panels are sewn together are decorated with green satin ribbons. The circular neck opening is finished with green and red satin ribbon, cut in zigzag; one satin red ribbon is left hanging loose down the front (instead of down the back, as is usual in Trique huipiles). Below the neck opening, on front and back, is embroidered a broad cross band of 8 cm consisting of vertical multi-coloured stripe design and an intertwining geometrical motif. The huipil is left open halfway down the side. Approximately 5 cm above the badly woven finished edge (remate) a green ribbon is sewn on the back. Used with: skirt vide 5075-55 or black woollen skirt. Provenience: San Juan Copala, Oax.