In Cresencio Morales, Mazahua clothing is embroidered and woven MonitorExpresso.com

Zitácuaro, Michoacán.- In the community of Cresencio Morales, municipality of Zitácuaro, Mazahua clothing is embroidered and woven. The bearer of tradition, Beatriz Guzmán Catarino, is a current precursor of these ancestral customs that she promotes among the youth of her village who wish to get married.” I am proud to wear this suit that is worn during weddings in my community,” she shares while showing the gifts destined for the future marriage: a trench coat for the groom and a long napkin embroidered in white cross stitch with colorful drawings for the bride. Beatriz also wears her clothes as she would wear them during the nuptials: an handmade skirt, a shearling sash, huaraches, a shawl and an embroidered backpack in different colors. She says that gifts for marriage are made in this town by hand or by sewing machine, with brocade fabrics and threads. Once the dress is ready, a coal smudge is used to welcome the couple during the wedding. Proud of her tradition, the wearer calls on the youth of her community to preserve the use of this ancestral clothing, and pointed out “that the tradition is not lost, that it continues to be used because it is beautiful, long live Cresencio Morales!”

Original source in Spanish