Huipiles are heavily decorated with motifs either woven or embroidered after the textile was completed. The garment can be worn draped or belted. Normally, all of the women in a village will wear the same design. Therefore, you can tell where a woman is from by the design of her huipil. Single women normally wear cotton embroideries and married women wear silk ones.
Adolescents prefer white until they marry when they then switch to more colorful background colors.
While Village Weavers is internationally famous for its fine handwoven clothing, it also carries one of a kind pieces that feature surface design on both the interior and exterior surfaces. Textile airbrush inks can be used with any standard airbrush. Any fiber produced by a plant having a chemical structure that can react with the fiber-reactive dye molecules. This is a term to describe the process and book by Jane Dunnewold of San Antonio which she created using all these and many more techniques. By using fabric glues to adhere the foil which gives an incredible shine and richness to the cloth.