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PLEASE READ ALL THE LISTING CONTACT US AT https://www.instagram.com/leatherhandsmx/ TO GET A 10% OFF Ready to ship (maneqquin high 187cm, 6'' This pieces is 100 % hand dye and the color comes from the grana cochineal the color is 100 % natural unique piece available measuraments: Length 44.48 inches/ 113 cm Chest all around 58.26 inches / 148cm Weaving The women use backstrap looms. The sit and usually tie up one side of their loom from a three and the other goes to her back so she can manage the applied tensión on the loom. A kaftan (huipil) is created by passing a bobbin through the warp threads, shifting the warp threads with the machete (a tool made with wool by a man in the town which has a blade shape), and repeating - the strongest is the hit the more structure the huipil has. As the design calls for different colors, thread with individual colors are passed through the warp for length required to make the patterns and motifs needed. Sometimes dozens of thread pieces with different colors are in play at one time.