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Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-144, described as Guipil (Loosely woven white cotton. Brocaded all over in many colors with cotton and silk. Approximately 47 cm long, 53 cm wide.)

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-249, described as Huipil (off-white cotton, plain and basket weaves. Multicolored brocaded designs in cotton and silk. Approximately 55 cm long, 82 cm wide.)

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-29616, described as Huipil: Backstrap-loomed, warp-predominant plain weave. Single, two-faced, and double suppl. weft brocading. Two pieces joined back, front, and side seams. End selvedges loom-finished; head hole slit, bound with black velvet, stitched by hand; sleeve openings bound with black velvet, hand-stitched. Iconography is geometric, floral, vases and horizontal bands.

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-29624, described as Huipil de casamiento: Backstrap-loomed, warp predominant plain weave. Single and two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Two pieces, hand-stitched front, back and sides. End selvedges loom-finished. Head hole cut and slit, bound with velvet; sleeves cut out and hand-stitched, faced with commercial cloth stitched by machine.

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, accession number 3-29611, described as Huipil: Backstrap-loomed, plain weave. Weft-faced and two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Two pieces joined front, back and side seams with a randa. Garment lined with commercial cloth, machine-stitched.

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, sobre, accession number 3-29621, described as Huipil-Sobre: Backstrap-loomed, warp predominant plain weave. Single and two-faced supp. weft brocading. Two pieces, joined front, back, underarm seams by randa; warps cut and hemmed. Head hole cut out and slit, hemmed, sleeves bound with velvet.

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, sobre, accession number 3-29620, described as Huipil-Sobre: Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave. Single and two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Two pieces joined by randa on front, back and side seams. End selvedges loom-finished on back side, other end warps cut and hemmed at front; sleeve holes edged with same randa as on side seams. Head hole cut out, and slit, bound by velvet. See also 3-29621 and 3-29623

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, sobre, accession number 3-29622, described as Huipil-Sobre: Backstrap-loomed, warp-faced plain weave. Single and two-faced suppl. weft brocading. Two pieces joined by decorative randa, both sides, front and back and underarm seams. All end selvedges loom-finished. Head hole cut out and slit, hand-stitched; sleeve openings hand-stitched.

Hearst Museum object titled Huipil, sobre, accession number 3-29605, described as Huipil: Backstrap-loomed, balanced plain weave. Two-faced supp. weft brocading. Two pieces, joined at front, back, side seams, end selvedges loom-finished. Slit opening for head, bound with black velvet as are sleeve openings.