Guatemalan Jacket shops Size Medium to Large Hand loomed Embroidered features Quetzal bird Great Ethnic or Surfer look Rare Hard to find
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Product code: Guatemalan Jacket shops Size Medium to Large Hand loomed Embroidered features Quetzal bird Great Ethnic or Surfer look Rare Hard to find

Guatemalan Jacket About Size Medium (Go by measurements)
Hand loomed Embroidered features Quetzal bird
Great Ethnic or Surfer look Rare Hard to find

Authentic 'Made in Guatemala' shirt jacket, for tourism.
100% cotton gray hue woven fabric with extensive embroidering on pockets, cuffs, front button placket, collar and back including a folk tale bird motif.
Shirt jacket is a loose roomy style with tailored detailing such as sleeves with a placket and button cuffs and side hem buttoned vents. The shirt back has the classic yoke.
There are 4 pockets as pictured.
5 buttons up the front.

This is a size Medium Men's or can be a Women's Medium to Large depending on the look you want, baggy loose or more fitted.

Shoulder to shoulder measures 16.5
Chest 40"
Hip at bottom hem 40"
Length from collar to hemline measures 27"
Sleeve Length 22"

Compare these to your measurements and sizing details carefully as there is no size tag present!

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To better understand the rich history of your Jacket, and for more information on Guatemalan textiles, please search: "Guatemalan Textiles History"
https://study.com/academy/lesson/guatemalan-textiles-history.html

"Things can define people. Don't even pretend it's not true. This isn't actually a bad thing. In fact, some things have managed to define entire cultures for literally hundreds and hundreds of years. This is certainly the case in the Central American nation of Guatemala. This region, part of the lands once occupied by one of the most complex civilizations of the ancient world, has been a center of textile production since time immemorial. The fabrics and cloths produced in this jungle-filled region have connected Guatemalans to their past, impacted their present, and will likely go on defining their future.
Let's go back to the origins of textile production in Guatemala. In ancient times, these jungles were home to the Maya people, one of the largest and most complex civilizations of the ancient Western Hemisphere. The Maya lived in tightly organized city-states, practiced advanced architecture and astronomy, and were the only culture in the hemisphere to develop a true system of writing. The Maya did a lot, but one of their most revered artistic traditions was textile production.

According to Maya traditions, the people were taught to spin plant fabrics into yarn and weave them into textiles by the goddess, Ix Chel. Ix Chel was a moon goddess, earth goddess, and embodiment of wisdom, fertility, and female virtues - depending on which form she decided to take on a particular day - who was said to have woven the cycles of life. She is often shown wearing a backstrap loom, which is the traditional Maya loom. This loom is actually worn by the weaver, strapped around the back and waist, and anchored to a tree or similar object.
The fact that the Maya have a goddess of weaving tells us something about the importance of this tradition. It was revered above nearly all other art forms and practiced by noble and common women alike from a young age. While the Maya filled their world with characteristically colorful and vibrant woven textiles, perhaps the most significant was a traditional garment called the huipil. Each huipil was carefully and intricately designed to feature symbolic images and patterns that went far beyond simple aesthetics.

Weaving was a semi-sacred action that connected women to Ix Chel and was as much a form of philosophy as it was an art. Each weaver's design reflected themes of history, personal identity, spirituality, and cosmological philosophy, which other people shops within Maya society would have been able to understand."
"Textiles in Guatemala Today
In the ancient world, Maya textiles were recognized and revered as pinnacles of artistic achievement. After the arrival of the Spanish, many Maya cultural forms were destroyed, but weaving remained. Why?

Well for one thing, it took a long time for the Spanish, who were focused on Mexico, to build up a sizeable European community in Guatemala, so their colonial presence was less intense. Also, Maya people needed clothes, and the Spanish saw no harm in Maya women continuing to weave. If anything, the colorful clothes helped them identify the Maya within a colonial society that practiced racial hierarchies. The Spanish missed most of the traditional symbols within these textiles that served as a form of cultural continuity and preserved Maya traditions...."

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