Chacaras | Massate | headbands

Priscila González Mendoza
more than 10 years carrying out this activity.
It belongs to the Mensuli group
How did they learn to do it?
Her grandmother taught her how to make the crafts and the interest she had to learn how to make this type of traditional art to preserve it over the years.

How do you do the activity?
To make mastate, you must go out to look for the plant from which it is removed for once cut, take it to the house and start extracting the fiber from said plant, that can take about a week to obtain the fiber on which it is painted. For the chacaras you must extract the thread that is used, for this, like the mastate, they go out to look for the plant, which they must crush to extract the fiber and once they have it, they must make the thread with which they will then make the chacaras, the time to have the thread is Also a week. In the case of headbands, they are made of fabric, which to buy and then according to the design they will make, cut it into the pieces they occupy and then sew them and decorate as planned.