Alahualtitla, Chicontepec, Vera Cruz in this Nahua village the women wear an embroidered blouses and a unique embroidered skirt. The older women wear the embroidered skirt made from muslin with embroidery along the bottom. Bob Freund1/20/2006 For more info@mexicantextiles.com
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She asked that I sit down and wait while she gathered the women of the DIF committee... slowly one by one people started arriving some women in the old style traditional dress and others in a newer style traditional. It is interesting how the women wear the blouse tucked in the front and the back is loose. After looking at the numerous pictures for a while they also don’t use the checkered apron so common in the other parts of Chicontepec district.