Nahualá is located 19 miles from Sololá on the Pan American highway. Principal economic underpinnings are represented by agriculture and textile production. Other Nahualá products are grinding stones (metates), foot-loomed commercial-grade jaspe fabric and wooden masks, figures and furniture. Notable also are the many different styles of huipiles that are currently in use.
A practice unique to Nahualá is to intentionally let threads bleed onto the white base fabric. The custom dates back to the use of silk threads, a high cost "status" material whose colors ran. Brocading is now done with cotton, acrylic or rayon, which could easily be purchased colorfast, but some women prefer the smears of color that result from the un-fixed threads and may even blot on extra dye to heighten the effect. Aldeas of Nahualá and nearby Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, as well as coastal migratory agricultural settlements, wear variations of Nahualá traje.
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