Omar Bal Large Oil Painting - "Pedida de Novia" - The Request for Marriage (P-L-OB-006) 16" x 22" Escuela Unusual sun design embroidered around

Unusual sun design embroidered around head hole

They showed us how they wove their huipils on a backstrap loom when we visited their village and explained how they worked together as a cooperatively to make Mayan Hands products

Backside of fabric has the name of the artisan who made it and the theme or title of the embroidery

One of her family hand-embroidered beautiful decorative randa cross with vases that holds the panels together  The cotton skirt material was made on a treadle loom or foot-loom probably in San Antonio Paloopo area or a neighboring town

Width:  30  inches

Omar Bal Large Oil Painting - "Pedida de Novia" - The Request for Marriage (P-L-OB-006) 16" x 22" Escuela Unusual sun design embroidered aroundLarge oil painting by Omar Bal from San Juan Comalapa in the Chimaltenango Department of Guatemala. Marked "Pedida de Novia" The Request for Marriage. (16" x 22")