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Latin American
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7/5/2008 |
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SAN PEDRO LAS HUERTAS |
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a.imagelink {color:#0000FF;} a:hover.imagelink {color:#0000FF;} a:visited.imagelink {color:#800080;} a.imagelink img.auctionimage { border: 2px solid #0000FF; } a:visited.imagelink img.auctionimage { border: 2px solid #800080; } SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASA MAYAN HANDWOVEN HUIPIL MEXICO WELL HUNG - ART & COLLECTABLES A MAYAN EXPERIENCE HUIPILSTHREADS OF TRADITIONWEAVINGGENERATIONSTOGETHER COLLECTOR QUALITY HAND WOVEN - COTTON WOOL IS ALSO USED IN THE COLDER REGIONSHUIPIL ( WEE - PEEL ) A VERY BEAUTIFUL TRADITIONAL HUIPIL FROM THIS VILLAGEFEATURING WONDERFUL FLORAL ACCENTS ON THE COLLAR AND ARMSON HAND WOVEN WHITE COTTON SELLING IN THE MARKET PLACES FOR $100 - $1000 THIS IS NOT A MACHINE MADE FOR THE TOURIST MARKET HUIPIL BEING SOLD IN MANY PLACES MAYA INDIAN - MEXICOFROM THE CHIAPAS REGION OF MEXICOREPRESENTING THE VILLAGE OF SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS" LIKE A SILVERSMITH'S "FROM THE MAYA TZOTZIL AND TZELTAL SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASASONE OF MEXICO'S MOST BEAUTIFUL TOWNSIT IS STUNNINGLY LOCATED IN THE FERTILE JOVEL VALLEYWITH THE MOUNTAINS OF HUITEPEC TO THE WEST AND TZONTEHUITZ TO THE EASTTHE CITY IS A CHARMING BLEND OF COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE AND INDIGENOUS CULTURE CHIAPAS - MEXICO BETWEEN 500 BC AND THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF 1519 POWERFUL MAYA KINGDOMS SUCH AS PALENQUE OCCUPIED PRESENT DAY CHIAPASREMARKABLY MAYA TEXTILE TRADITIONS HAVE SURVIVED REGIONAL INVASIONS BY OTHER PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURESWITHSTOOD THE COLLAPSE OF THE ANCIENT CLASSIC MAYA CIVILIZATION - ENDURED THE ONSLAUGHT OF A BRUTAL SPANISH CONQUEST AND EVENTUALLY FLOURISHED IN PASSIVE RESISTANCE TO FORIEGN RULETHE TRADITIONS MAINTAINED AND EXPRESSED IN THEIR DAILY DRESS HAVE HELPED THE MAYA TO CONTINUE THEIR CUSTOMS IN THE FACE OF OVERWHEMING PRESSURE AND CHANGETHE MAYA WEAVING THEIR TRADITIONAL COSTUME IS PROUDY IF NOT DEFIANTLY PROCLAIMING TO THE WORLD I AM MAYAIN THE TEXTILES OF CHIAPAS THE MAYA CONCEPTS OF TIME - SPACE AND THE MYTHOLOGICAL FORCES OF NATURE ARE INTERWOVEN. THROUGH REPEATED CYCLES OF BIRTH - DECLINE - CONQUEST AND REVIVALWEAVING HAS PRESERVED THE DESIGN OF THE MAYA UNIVERSETHEIR TRADITIONAL CLOTHING REPRESENTS A IDENITY AND CULTURE GOING BACK CENTURIESCHIAPAS REMAINS A POOR AGRICULTURAL STATE. THE POOREST IN MEXICO. THEY STILL SUFFER TODAY AFTER THE ZAPATISTA REBELLION OF 1994 THESE ARE COLLECTOR QUALITY AND RANGE IN AGE FROM 1 TO 15 YEARS OLD AND THE VINTAGE HUIPILS AND TEXTILES ARE FROM 15 TO 50 YEARS OLD AND OLDERUNLIKE HUIPILS MADE TODAY FOR THE TOURIST TRADE WITH MACHINES THESE ARE HAND WOVEN USING TRADITIONAL COTTON THREADS ON A HAND HELD OR BACK STRAP LOOM. IT CAN TAKES MONTHS TO PRODUCE ONE HUIPILTHE SIDE SEAMS ARE EITHER LEFT OPEN OR SEWN UP JUST ENOUGH TO PROVIDE ARM OPENINGS. WHICH MAKES THE HUIPIL EASY TO ENLARGE THE ARM AND NECK OPENING IT IS TO BE WORN OR OPENED FOR DISPLAYHUIPILS ARE WORN AS A BLOUSE TUCKED IN OR AS AN OUTER PONCHOHUIPILS FROM THE LOWLAND REGIONS ARE MADE FROM A LIGHTER COTTON BECAUSE OF THE HEAT AND THE BACK AND FRONT PANELS ARE GENERALLY WOVEN TOGETHER WITH ARM HOLES. THE WEAVING CAN EASILY BE OPENEDHUIPILS FROM THE HIGHLAND REGIONS ARE MADE FROM A HEAVIER COTTON FOR WARMTH AND THE FRONT AND BACK PANELS GENERALLY ARE LEFT OPENCOLLECTORS TODAY USE INNOVATIVE METHODS TO DISPLAY THERE COLLECTIONS SUCH AS - WALL HANGINGS - TABLE OR FURNITURE COVERINGS OR FRAMED WITH THE NECK OPENING USED TO DISPLAY PAINTINGS OR PICTURES ETC.HUIPILSHUIPIL ( WEE - PEEL ) IS A SPANISH TERM FOR A MAYAN WOMAN'S BLOUSE - IT IS THE MOST PERSONAL, COMMUNICATIVE AND SIGNIFICANT PART OF HER TRAGE OR COSTUME, AND THE GREATEST FORM OF THE MAYAN CULTURE'S WEAVING HERITAGEIT IS USED TO IDENTIFY THE SPECIFIC VILLAGE OF THE WEARER - SOMETIMES HER SOCIAL. MARITAL STATUS, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, WEALTH, AUTHORITY AND INDIVIDUALITYIN THE MID 1960'S THERE WERE OVER 200 DIFFERENT TRAGE STYLES IN GUATEMALA. UNFORTUNATELY TODAY THIS NUMBER HAS GREATLY DECLINED. EACH VILLAGE HAS ITS OWN STYLE AND COLORS WELL WOVEN TRAGES ( HUIPILS ) ARE VERSATILE AND DURABLE. THIS CREATES AN EXCELLENT CHANCE FOR A COLLECTOR TO OWN A PIECE OF MAYA CULTURE AND HISTORYTHE WIDTH AND LENGHT OF THE HUIPIL ARE DEPENDENT ON ITS AGE, REGIONAL PREFERENCES, LOOM WIDTH AND OCCASION FOR WHICH IT IS WORNA HUIPIL REPRESENTS EXPRESSION AND PRIDE AMOUNG THE MAYAMAYA WEAVINGACCORDING TO MAYA QUICHE MYTHOLOGY OF THE NEW EMPIRE - AD 987 TO 1697 ON OUR CALENDAR. IXCHEL, THE MOON GODDESS, CONSORT OF ITZAMAN, THE SUN GOD, WAS THE PATRON OF WEAVING. THE DAUGHTER OF THE SUN AND MOON GODS, IXCHEBEL YAX, IS THE PATRON OF BROCADING AND EMBROIDEREYTHE MAYA TODAY WEAVES THE FINEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL TEXTILES ON A HIP OR BACK - STRAP LOOM AND SOMETIMES A FOOT LOOMWHILE THE DESIGNS ON THE WEAVING APPEAR TO BE EMBROIDERED IN MOST THEY ARE ACTUALLY CREATED AS THE FABRIC IS WOVENTHIS TECHNIQUE USES 3 TYPES OF BROCADING1. SINGLE FACED - PATTERN IS VISABLE ONLY ON THE FRONT SIDE OF THE WEAVING. REVERSE SIDE SHOWS ONLY THE PLAIN GROUND WEAVE2. TWO FACED - THE INVERSE IMAGE OF THE BROCDED PATTERN ON THE FRONT APPEARS ON THE BACK OF THE WEAVING3. DOUBLE FACED - THE MOST COMPLICATED AND HIGHLY VALUED - THE PATTERN IS VISABLE ON THE BACK AND FRONT OF THE WEAVINGCONTEMPORARY DESIGNS HAVE 4 BASIC FORMS:1. - DIAMONDS - WHICH SYMBOLIZE THE EARTH AND SKY AS A UNITY2. - UNDULATING FORMS - LIKE SNAKES - WHICH SYMBOLIZE THE FERTILE EARTH3. - FORMS WITH 3 VERTICAL LINES - WHICH SYMBOLIZE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD - THE COMMUNITY - AND ITS HISTORY4. - FIGURES - SUCH AS TOADS ( THE MUSICIANS OF THE RAIN ) - BIRDS - ANIMALS - PATRON SAINTS - ETC.HUIPILS OF COLLECTOR QUALITY TODAY DEMAND A PRICE BETWEEN $100 TO $1000 SIZE:WIDTH - 24 1/4 "LENGTH - 20 1/4 "CONDITION:IN EXCELLENT CONDITION BECAUSE OF AGE AND USE THERE MAY BE SLIGHT WEAR AND FADING. AS WITH ANY HAND MADE ITEM THERE MAY BE SOME NATURAL IMPERFECTIONS. WHICH SETS EACH HUIPIL APART FROM THE NEXT. NO TWO ARE THE SAME. EACH IS IT'S OWN UNIQUE CREATIONSHIPPING COST FROM GUATEMALA:FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDEWORLDWIDE SHIPPING NORMALLY - $18 - $25LOOKING FOR A SPECIFIC - MAYAN OR CENTRAL AMERICIAN - MASK - SANTOS - HUIPIL - TEXTILE - POTTERY - CARVINGS - PAINTING - OR ANY OTHER ARTIFACTS CONTACT US AT MAYANMASKS@HOTMAIL.COM WE CAN FIND WHAT YOUR LOOKING FORPLEASE SEE OUR EBAY AUCTIONS AND STORE FOR MORE WONDERFUL HUIPILS AND COLLECTABLESMANY PIECES IN OUR STORE AT AUCTION PRICES AND MANY WITH FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDEA - 237 After purchasing, pay instantly with your credit card through PayPal!
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