Embroidered Blouse

This embroidered blouse was made in Mexico in the 20th century. The black and red embroidery stands out distinctly against the shirt’s white ground fabric. The embroidered design is a repeated rooster pattern surrounded by foliate imagery, above two registers of flowers. The textile artist used long stitches to fill in the rooster and foliage, which gives them a soft rippling texture that is bounded by the short, bright red stitches that outline the designs.