Post production tasks: textiles (Mexico)

Blouses or “huipils” were designed and crafted by women on their waist looms, and usually include important symbols such as snakes, birds or lightning rays. Most “huipils” are made of cotton, and consist of several separately woven bands, sewn together at the sides, leaving long holes for the arms but also to ease breast-feeding.

The waist loom was used early on by women in pre-Columbian America and still exists in many communities in Latin America.

Photo, Gonzalo Cases Ortega.