The traditional three-panel huipil has been reinterpreted as a more fitted blouse which works well with jeans or a skirt for a more everyday look. The fitted huipil emerged from a long-term collaboration with Guatemalan deisgner Olga Reiche to appeal to a new emerging audience for Q'eqchi' weavings at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market since 2012.

The textile is made in the Maya Q'eqchi' village of Samac in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Samac is located on a coffee farm near Coban, Guatemala. The community settled there after the internal conflict and began to develop a coffee cooperative as well as the weaving cooperative of Ixbalamque. The traditional three-panel huipil has been reinterpreted as a more petite two-panel blouse which works well with jeans or a skirt for a more everyday look. The fitted huipil emerged from a long-term colllaboration with Guatemalan deisgner Olga Reiche to appeal to a new emerging audience for Q'eqchi' weavings at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market since 2012. Each Q'eqchi' design has special meanings. Aside from landscape, plant, and animal designs, elements  are symbolically significant. 

MEASUREMENTS 55 cm W x 49 cm L

TECHNIQUE / DETAILS Backstrap loom weaving with embroidery between the panels and along borders

MATERIALS Cotton Gauze

SIZE Small to Medium. A more fitted design for those who do not want the larger draping look of the traditional three-panel huipil.

Each piece takes three weeks to one month to make.

Ready to dispatch 5 weeks after purchase.