Huipil cadenilla red

Huipil embroidered in "cadenilla" technique by Bordados Ambaa of San Juan Guichicovi, Oaxaca, Mexico.

The "cadenilla" technique is used by the Zapotec people of the state of Oaxaca, more widespread in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region, to embroider the traditional Huipils worn by the women of this Mexican state.

This Huipil is embroidered with three lines of embroidery "Cadenilla in 20 days in a treadle machine. Every three seconds aprox. you have to change the direction of the fabric, until you create a zigzag pattern.

Fabric: Satin

Measures:

Waist size: 120 cm

Chest size: 122 cm

Length: 56 cm

Unique piece.

Size L

Cadenilla" technical weaving 

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