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Temple cloth with block printed image of mother goddess on a rooster inside of a square; rooster has a beaded necklace in its mouth. There is a flower printed in the bottom left corner of the square and a striped oval-like shape in the right; two diagonal lines through the upper corners. Scene is bordered by decorated bands. Designs consist of (from centre outward): repeating diamonds and dots, vines, repeating diamonds and dots, and chevrons. Cloth has a black backing with loops along the top edge, for hanging purposes.
Temple cloth with block printed image of a procession; characters alternate between a man holding a staff and a man on horseback. Both figures are holding swords in one hand and wearing elaborate robes and headpieces. The standing man is facing the right side of the cloth, the man on horseback is facing the left. Columns of shell-like motifs in background of scene, extending from top edge. Fan-like design along left side of image, striped oval-like shapes on right. Wide border, with chevrons throughout, along outer edges of cloth.
Temple cloth with series of block printed images across length. Scenes are divided by bands filled with chevrons. Central panel depicts Ganesh with a row of flowers overtop. Left panel consists of two worshippers, right side has a two-headed goat. Throughout scenes on left and right sides are trees, birds and fish motifs. Cloth has a black backing with loops along the top edge, for hanging purposes.
Temple cloth with block printed image of mother goddess on a two-headed bull; bulls have the upper bodies of humans. Priests are standing on either side of the bull, offering bowls. Bull heads close to feet of mother goddess, along bottom edge of scene. Central image is surrounded with a curved border; interior filled with floral designs and outlined with triangle motifs. Wide border, with plant motifs throughout, along outer edges of cloth. Space between outer border and curved inner border is filled with diagonal lines.
Small rectangular tapa cloth. Solid rectangular border. Within, two rows of repeating designs - repeating narrow oval shapes, tapering to a point at each end, with repeating triangles within and flanked by petal shapes that curl inwards to the ovals. Only one side of cloth is painted.
Rectangular cloth with beige plain weave fabric and cut-pile(?) embroidered geometric designs. The pattern is hexagonal or honeycomb-like, with each hexagon form filled with concentric shapes, and a centre that is either deep red or golden orange colour. The hexagons are outlined and divided by a dark brownish-grey line. Long fringe is knotted around entire cloth in alternating sections of dark brown and yellow-brown fibres. Two large safety pins are attached along one short end on the backside of the cloth.
Off-white square cloth with one small circular mirror at centre. Composed of two layers of fabric stitched together along sides in purple, with edges turned in. Heavily embroidered on off-white face, with pink side plain. Band filled with repeating swirl designs across bottom. A large triangle extends up into a diamond, and then from the top and two sides of the diamond extends a band which splits into two, with each curling down. Small swirls are within the larger designs and around them as well.
White square cloth with large heart at centre of design. Extending from the heart are four curled arms and, from top, two leaf-ended branches(?). Small wave-like swirls border the larger design. Four small mirrors within the ends of the curled vines of the embroidery. Two layers of fabric stitched together by embroidered design.
Large off-white rectangular table cloth with ivory hand-embroidery. Edge of the cloth is embroidered creating a scalloped-edge. Five concentric embroidered designs follow the outer edges of the fabric - three zigzags with two repeating designs in between. Across the centre are three columns by six rows of embroidered crosses.
Textile showing a narrative built using coloured hand-embroidered cross-stitching on a metre-squared piece of white linen. The embroidery is confined to a hexagon shape at the centre of the fabric. The narrative works around the cloth, beginning with a depiction of the sowing of maize in a Yucatecan milpa (maize field) when Veronica (the maker) is a child. The milpa is shown, as is Veronica with her grandfather. They kneel before an altar upon which 9 maize kernels are placed. The later scenes show the embroiderer in her house eating with her family, they show her learning to embroider with machine. The connecting images are of birds and floral patterns typically used for traditional dress (the textiles Veronica’s mother is teaching her to make). The final scene shows a religious procession in Abala. In the background are adverts on the walls of Abala, showing the emblem of the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional).