the craft: embroideries
Some of the clothing used to perform the various traditional dances of Peru are embroidered, with designs of the beautiful flowers that adorn the countryside and lighten our lives. Here in Huancayo, there are many traditional dances, such as the: huaylash moderno, huaylash antiguo, santiago, chonguinada and many more.As everywhere in the world, some of the Peruvian dances represent the courtship of men and women. The Peruvian dances also reflect the agricultural year: the harvesting of potatoes in the huaylash and a hymn for the fertility of the flocks in the santiago; they also reflect the history of Peru, such as in the ironic reference to court dances of Spain, in the chonguinada.
Sewing cloth in preparation for embroidering a pollera (style of woman's skirt)
Trestles, to the left of the embroidery trestle-frame
Assembly with trestle-frame mounted on the trestles
Stretching the frame so that it is well adjusted, so that when the embroidery is completed it can have a perfect finish
Digna Nuñez basting the background fabric on the embroidery frame
Embroidering the pollera,, in which there is a perfect juxtaposition of every flower with all of its neighbors, with every design standing out
A finished pollera, ready for use
Two young women wearing polleras