Mola
モラ / late 19th century– / Technique / Textile Traditions
The reverse appliqué of Guna women in Panama: layered colored cloth cut back and stitched so contours ripple in multiple lines — printmaking in fabric, worn daily as blouse panels.
Layered reverse appliqué / Multiple contour lines / Maze-like ground filling / Animals and geometry
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Guna Yala autonomy / modern imagery entering molas / the double life of wearing and collecting