Copper Gold Ikat Fabric, Ethnic Waist Sash is a hand woven Guatemalan fabric featuring a complex design of repeating colored stripes of peach, gold, crimson, pastel green, and orange... alternating with black & white and blue ikat shimmer stripes (no.23) measuring 3 5/8" wide by approximately 86" long.
Please note that the length measurements are approximate and include the unfinished loom warps at both ends. The length of the fringes will also vary from sash to sash. Handmade, these fabric belts will show the usual charms of human imperfection (what some people refer to as 'flaws'). If there are any, they are minor. I have sold this fabric for many years now, and I hope you will be super pleased, as all my other customers have been.
Brizel's sashes are New Old Vintage Stock from the 1980s, never used nor washed. Sashes ship out in a plastic mailer via First Class Mail within the USA with tracking included. If you are in a hurry, please upgrade to Priority Mail during your Check Out process.
CARE INSTRUCTIONS…
For best results, hand wash in cold water only & when using an iron, be sure it’s not too hot so as to burn the fabric which is cotton.
PLEASE NOTE: as per my Shop Policies, all sales are final. If you have any concerns or questions about a product- pls address them *before* you make a purchase to make sure they meet your requirements. I'm so sorry but items may not be returned due to a change of heart or mind.
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MORE ABOUT Brizel's sash fabrics from Guatemala
Jazz up for your gypsy style clothing and bohemian modern wear... and for costume statements at reenactment and LARP festivals… and at special occasions event such as weddings, fairs and Burning Man too! These hand woven Guatemalan textiles can also be used to make obi sashes or Kimono belts… hat scarves or head bands… guitar or drum straps. Use them as embellishments, decorative trim, house decor… as well as for sewing or any other crafty project which your imagination would like to make with them.
These gorgeous vintage fabric sash belts are fine quality woven Guatemalan textiles... reclaimed from Las Maños, a business which through FAiR TRADE principles commissioned their creation directly from the weavers in Guatemala throughout the 1980s. When Las Maños went out of business in the early 00s I inherited (so to speak) approximately 80 different fabric sash rolls, all bearing distinct designs & colors.
In Guatemala, this type of traditional Mayan belt is still worn today- sometimes the only remnant of the native costume worn by men. Women, on the other end of the spectrum, have kept to traditional wear much more passionately.
Sashes- called Bandas (for men) and Fajas (for women) can range from thin to wide… plain to colorful… striped with or without plaids… to intricate brocaded designs. Wound around the waist several times- often holding up either pants or skirts… the mens sashes are tied at the bellybutton and the ends allowed to tangle in front proudfully whilst the women usually wind theirs around their waist all the way tucking the ends in. Tradition varies by region- style, color, pattern, tying methodology. Nothing is haphazard.
Guatemalan sashes, generally speaking, are the weaving product of a back strap loom. This is a very basic loom which warp strings are tied to a tree at one end and at the other end, there is a length of wood with a fabric seat. The weaver sits/kneels holding the tension of the warp strings tight whilst weaving.
Weaving is a spiritual tradition in Guatemala affirming connection with the Gods bringing myth and prayer into physical manifestation. The warp strings represent the umbilical cord between the divine and the individual... and the tree they are tied on represents ‘the' tree of life.
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