Who is Maria Soledad?
MARIA SOLEDAD VILLALOBOS SARABIA
Originally from the Heroic Villa de San Blas Atempa in the region of the Istmo de Tehuantepec, Oaxaca.
Being the granddaughter of the village tailor and coming from a family of artisans, and with the concern of doing a job that she would like and be passionate about, her venture called "La Rabona" was born. She wanted to do her best because she was a cancer survivor that was detected in 2012; Being in the recovery process, his mother passed away (in 2015) and his father suffered a stroke, to date he is still in her care.
Instead of getting depressed, she takes inspiration from her clothes and what she did just for her daughters and decides to undertake and start selling her textiles in 20216. With the idea of supporting her father and also having a better economy to be able to support her husband and daughters, to collaborate with the family and the artisans of the Istmo of Tehuantepec.
Maria Soledad is dedicated together with her family to the elaboration and design of Istmeña artisan clothing, accessories, bags, dolls; in addition to the elaboration of the traditional cured Plum, Nanche and Mango, legacy of their parents.
The Istmeña clothing consists of: Hand-embroidered chain huipiles with the hook and needle techniques. Rabonas from 3 to 6 meters wide, skirts, braids, circular skirt, twelve-piece blade skirt that are used daily or for different events such as wakes, stewardships, weddings, and the complete regional costume that consists of a huipil and the skirt with its respective starched flounce for special events.
The elaboration of istmeña clothing requires a lot of time, therefore, the artisan dedicates most of the day to it; depending on the garment, it takes from one day to 6 months of elaboration.
In addition, in order for other parts of the state, the country and even the world to wear clothing from the Istmo, Maria Soledad is dedicated to redesigning the garments so that they can be used in jean jackets, dresses or other types of modern (daily) garments.
She has also formed a team of approximately 13 artisans, who support each other as a work team to benefit all their families and to be able to market their textiles.
Hand embroidery requires a lot of creativity, both to trace, draw and embroider, which is achieved with the enthusiasm and dedication of seeing a garment finished.
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