Traditional artist Victorina Lopez weaves huipiles showing her love for Mexican nature / @alefrausto @cultura_mx >>>

#Cultura.- Master craftswoman Victorina López Hilario has the firm idea that creating from the love of the shapes and colors that nature gives her is the way in which she has achieved that her work as a huipil weaver is recognized by institutions and consumers of her original art.

In an interview, the artisan says that since she was a child, she admired the colors given by the trees, plants and animals that she could see in the town of Piedra Pesada, located in the municipality of Xochistlahuaca, in the Costa Chica of Guerrero, which inspired her to use them in the task of weaving huipiles for sale.

«In my family we make huipiles to sell since the time of my great-great-great-grandmother; it is a family tradition that girls learn to weave and make their own huipiles. That’s how I started, at the age of 6, when I wove my first huipil,» she says.

Once she mastered the technique of huipil weaving and napkin embroidery, the teacher Victorina, still a child, went to the communities of Acapulco, Chilpancingo and Ometepec to sell her pieces, along with those of other women in her family and even neighbors.

«Over time and with more confidence I went to Mexico City to take my garments to sell. I took work from my mother, my cousins and neighbors. I went to a museum and then I was invited to go to the School of Anthropology,» says the master craftswoman.

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