This was inspired by the 3 panel huipils of Guatamala and the brown cotton textiles of Mexico. Two warps, first one 3 yds for the central panel, and 5yds for the two side panels. Yarns are natural cotton flake and a tiny sand colored boucle of color-grown cotton. The brocade(overlay-underlay) with the tiny boucle yarn is very nice and all the designs are derived from an X.
It is just beautiful, thank you for all the photos showing the progress and process!
ps,now you have me bouncing back and forth between WIP and the finished project to see the neck construction!
I forgot to put up pics of the neckline construction, sorry. I marked the neckline so that it would be good for me as I am today. I did a sample of how to finish it and chose afinish with a 3" bias cut silk gauze to cover the seam allowance.
Stay stitched the seamline and cut it out. Serged the two raw edges of the silk to the seam allowance, press and hand-stitched the silk to the handwoven cloth.
As you can see I worked around the leno band.
I also finished the hem with the same silk but used a herring bone stitch to support all the weight. I finished the armholes with buttonhole stitch in the taupe boucle.
Wonderful! I would so love to make something to wear! Very inspiring.
Beautiful! I like the combination of inlay patterning with the leno. It looks like it would be lovely to wear in the summer.
Laurie Autio
no guilt for you! I was bouncing back and forth to see where you placed the neckline....the finishing photos that you took time to upload are lovely! Wonderful handwork! regards Deb Mc
Brocade bands alternating with leno bands is very traditional, as seen here, and here(San Lucas Toliman, 2nd one from top) and taken to a different level in these pikb'il huipiles.
It is common , and surprising to me, in very heavily brocaded huipiles. It reduces the weight of the cloth and I regret not putting bands of leno in the side panels, the whole piece would have been lighter.
