Guadeloupe

Embroidering stories

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Artisan creator of Tenango embroidery

In the Sierra de Hidalgo we find the artisan creators who, stitch by stitch, create Tenango embroidery. A tradition of the Otomí culture that was inspired in its beginnings by cave paintings existing in the area and that reflect motifs of flora and fauna.

Guadalupe is a young woman passionate about the Tenango embroidery tradition. She has led the creation of a cooperative of female embroiderers from the mountains.

She would like her name to always be remembered for leaving a legacy of helping women to reach their full potential and get ahead. She represents a story of overcoming and teamwork that is helping many families achieve a better quality of life.

Leave a story, the story of all of us who work here, as a story of overcoming Guadeloupe

This is how he makes the pieces

Stitches of overcoming.

Known as Tenango embroidery or Otomi embroidery, this embroidery is traditionally done on a fabric called manta, which is nothing more than a cotton thread fabric similar to our poplin.

They learn the drawings from childhood, and they draw them by hand with a pencil on the fabric in an almost automatic way. These are cave drawings found in the area of San Nicolás, Hidalgo.

There are ancient Tenango embroideries, very difficult to find, that show in their embroidery not only images of fauna and flora, but also people in an everyday scene. Because only the drawings that they learn in childhood are those that they know how to draw and embroider.

The Tenango stitch is a clean stitch on the reverse side and fully filled on the right side. It takes a single artisan 1 week to embroider a single cushion.