Textiles from Mexico
Author: Chloe Sayer Publisher: The British Museum Press : 2002 ISBN: 0-7141-2562-8 Tags: embroidery | Mexico | Textiles | weaving |
Description:
| Mexican textiles have a vitality that is unsurpassed elsewhere in the Americas. The arts of spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery are practiced in hundreds of rural communities where indigenous peoples retain distinctive clothing styles, sometimes mixing this with post-Colonial influences. |