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Traditional Clothing -- Huipiles, Cortes & Fajas

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Women's traditional huipil -- Beautifully handwoven and hand embroidered of deep burgandy and white. One size fits all. Item #M137 -- $70.00


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Stunning, white handwoven women's huipil with special hand-embroidery along neck. This huipil is woven on a backstrap loom and is a beautiful work of art! Embroidery colors are royal blue, light blue, deep green and burgandy. Made in San Juan La Laguna. one size fits all --- Item #P208 -- $70.00


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Women's huipil (blouse) that can be worn everyday-- of variegated colors: burgandy, green, blue, purple. Typical of San Antonio Palopo. Hand embroidery down seam lines and around neck. one size fits all. Item # M122 -- $35.00


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Women's traditional corte (skirt) of handwoven traditional fabric. Color is a beautiful indigo and has beautifully hand embroidery-- see close up. One size fits all-- Item # M138 -- $60.00


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A beautiful handwoven belt with beautiful hand embroidered flowers. Most Mayan women wear a handwoven belt on their skirts but this is a very fancy one and not used for everyday wear. 2" X 84" One size fits all. Item #M153 -- $34.99

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Darling little girls corte and huipil (skirt and blouse). The corte is black woven traditional fabric for a beautiful skirt! Has hand embroidery work on the seams. 21 1/2" long and 67" around. One size fits all. Item #M121 -- $35.00

The blouse is a really fancy handwoven white child's huipil! It has beautiful hand embroidery at neck of blue, green and red. The embroidered squares have a significance in the Mayan culture and make this a special huipil. 18" across and 18" long --- Item # M119-- $40.00


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Traditional child's aprons with embroidery work on the front. Darling little aprons to complete any outfit! Even the youngest little girls wear an apron just like Mom and these are the exact type worn everyday! There is a hidden pocket inside to hold money --- again just like Mom's apron. Size is approx. 10" X 14".

Item# M105 --Pink; Item#M104 -- blue/greens; Item #M103 is variegated. $17.50 each.

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Beautiful handmade women's faja (belt) to be used with the cortes -- handwoven on a backstrap loom in the village of Santa Catarina. Even though it is a belt they make beautiful wall decorations because of the intricate patterns of embroider. The embroidery is done at the same time as the weaving and is quite a tedious process. This one has various shades of blues and greens. 3" X 62". Item # M142 -- $32.00.

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