Textile Art of the Mayans
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For the Mayans their process of making textiles (brocade) was scared thinking that it pleased their “gods”.
Brocade is a process of weaving intricate designs into textiles by adding colored yarn into the warp and weft of their loom.
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For centuries Mayan people have used brocade to weave images of their so-called gods on to their clothes. Nowadays, they often depict the Virgin Mary and the saints on their textiles.
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They also put textile patterns of different animals, plants, and objects on their textiles. Some examples of these are: flowers, diamonds, monkeys, toads, snakes, vultures, etc. In the picture at the beginning of this article is shown the pattern of a monkey.
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Mayan textile art reminds me of the Romanian one. When my grandma was a girl she used to make clothes, bedsheets, and pillowcases with stitched patterns. It was used in other nations too, not only in the Mayan nation.
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