The real engine of Mayan textile art It is in the hands of women like Fidelia Abigail Ek, inhabitant of Tipikal, Maní. She not only embroiders, she keeps a solemn promise to her grandmother: prevent the ancient stitches of your town from becoming extinct. “Those who acquire our work not only take a piece, they take a family promise,” he said.
Yucatan receive this weekend Original meetinga cultural movement promoted by the federal Ministry of Culture, which is developed from October 16 to 19 at the Siglo XXI Convention Center and the Great Museum of the Mayan World.
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The soul of this event is the more than 300 artisans and craftsmen what are they looking for protect your creations against plagiarism y claim the cultural value of their work.
For example, Fidelia, together with a group of 15 women from her community, rescues techniques in danger of disappearing, including the Xmanictesa sacred stitch that, according to tradition, can only be mastered after a ritual with a reptile.
“My grandmother taught me that you had to touch a snake nine times from head to tail to have the gift of teaching how to embroider. They did that ritual for me in the mountains. Since then I have been working with women from Tipikal so that this technique is not lost,” she said in an interview with 24 HOURS Yucatan.
They keep the thread technique alive The idea
In the same spirit of cultural resistance, Delia Domínguez, of Teabo, keeps alive the counted thread technique, known as The ideawhich she learned from her mother and which she now seeks to pass on.
“Since I was young I grew up sewing, that’s what I raised my children with.. Before I had to walk from house to house to sell my sewing, now with the telephone and the networks I can offer my work more easily,” she said.
In his home, he abounded, teaches her daughters to embroider and design their own drawings: “they paint, they form the drawing and we sew it together. This is how we follow the tradition.”
The head of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts (Sedeculta), Patricia Martín Briceño, assured that Yucatecan Mayan embroidery is going through one of its best stages and recognized the joint work between institutions, artisans and artisans to revitalize this expression of identity that, in addition to being art, represents a source of economic autonomy for hundreds of families in the state.
“Mayan embroidery includes about 37 different stitchesand today we can once again see garments that go beyond cross stitch or matting. “This diversity reflects the vitality of embroidery and its role as living heritage,” he explained.
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“Those who acquire our work do not just take a piece, they take a family promise,”
Fidelia Abigail Ek, de Mani
“Since I was young I grew up sewing, that’s what I raised my children with”
Delia Domínguez, of teabo
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