Procedure Of Indigenous Black Dresses

When preparing the court for women's black dresses, men's shirts and shawls, the technique known as mottled or ixat is quite common. With this technique, before dying, the skeins of yarn are tied with pitas each distance, so that during these parts of the dye run out threaded. This produces a single color picture, but the natural color of thread. It is repeated several times, the fabric will result in different colors in different drawings.

Today

While the fabric ixat is quite common in Guatemala, its elaboration is true it is not appreciated. But today there are few places where men of the people central full original costumes. Many men have rejected their shiny. Heels cut by other European plain, blue, black, or white and are of thick hand-woven shirts factory for other, more comfortable, cheaper, and above all, easier to remove.

Fabrics

Cotton and wool cut and European influence was called Coton. In the area of Solola is made of black wool or raw wool. These black dresses are still tailored and adorned with applications in the back, which represent a stylized bat symbol Cakchiquel mythology of pre-conquest. Other people use other colors like maroon, indigo, black, gray, or mottled.

As already mentioned, there are few places where men still wear these dresses made of thick cotton to stripes, decorated with motifs superimposed in brocade. Some are usually made from two rectangular strips of tissue, such as leaving the loom. Are widely used in villages around Lake Atitlan, where tissues are often mottled with vertical lines on a white background or red or purple streaks. At the bottom are embroidered the reasons for fauna, matching with the reasons for the blouses of women region.

The most striking black dresses across the country are those of Cuchumatanes cough because they are black and white fabrics with geometric embroidered in bright colors, and are probably the most beautiful expression of Indian male costume in Guatemala. The knee the dress wrapped around the hips or above pants, as in Solola, and as toneletes without pants. It is this latter case under thin cotton underpants of delicate embroidery done by hand by the same men, with butterfly and bird motifs.

Footwear and bags

The sandals are leather sandals much like those carved sandals, and consist of a hard leather sole and various straps that tied to the foot. Sometimes they have special protective leather ankle. These can be combined with black dresses. The bags are hand-woven bags and women can go to certain places with it. They weave themselves that using two wooden needles and thread coarse wool, cotton, or sisal, and may or may not be adorned with pictures. Dare to try these inspirational designs!