Cloth with zigzag lines

The cloth (in Spanish sut or tzute) is woven with cotton in a hip loom. The cloth has zigzag lines applied with a cotton brocade. Brocade is a decorative technique where extra threads are added to the warp and weft during the weaving itself. The cloth also contains fringes at one of the ends. Furthermore the ends are decorated at the edge by using the Jaspe technique. Jaspe is a dyeing technique in knots with which decorative motifs are produced. It involves covering specific areas of the thread (by knotting the thread at specific points) to prevent these areas from becoming coloured when the thread is dipped in the paint. When the knots are undone, after dyeing, the thread contains dyed and unpainted segments. During the weaving process, figures are formed with these threads.‖ Incidentally, the cloth consists of one piece of woven textile. \A sut or tzute is a garment that can be used by various purposes: it can serve to cover the head, shoulders and arms during ceremonial ceremonies or as protection from the sun; to carry children or groceries in; to hold sacred objects and images of saints, store bread, and set tables during ceremonial occasions. This garment can be worn by both women and men. This particular cloth is meant for daily use and it is exclusively used by women. The cloth is decorated with zigzag lines in the colors yellow, blue, white, red, green, and pink. The fringes are pink. \Ámolonga is a municipality of the department of Quetzaltenango. It covers a territory of 20 km² and is located at 2,251 m above sea level. The name of this municipality comes from the Nahuatl language. Almolonga means 'the place where the spring occurs'. The municipality of Almolonga existed before the conquest of 1524, and it was enrolled in the city of Quetzaltenango on August 27, 1839.The residents of Almolonga are horticulturalists. They devote much of their time to agriculture, as it is the main income of families. The predominant language in Almolonga is Quiché, as 86.36% of the population speaks this language. The other 10.92% also speak Quiché, Spanish and to a lesser extent Mam. The Quiche language and the Mam language belong to the Quichean-Mamean sub-family of the Mayan language family. The last information about the number of inhabitants dates from 2007. In that year Almolonga had 32,047 inhabitants (16,071 non-mayan and 15,976 mayan).