Mola art developed when Guna women had access to store bought yard goods. Mola designs are often inspired by modern graphics such as political posters, labels, pictures from books and TV cartoons, …

Aug 10, 2022 · While there’s no exact record of when the first mola was made, many historians believe that the colorful custom stemmed from a different form of art that was common within the Indigenous...

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Nov 17, 2021 · Molas are hand-sewn cotton textiles traditionally fashioned into blouses and worn by Guna women. They often sport vibrant, geometric designs that range from abstract patterns to …

Sep 10, 2019 · The blouses, and their decorative front and rear panels, are referred to as molas. The best molas are remarkable works of art. The Mola Museum is dedicated to promoting this amazingly …

Mola Art and Craft started by Rita Smith in 2005 to offer you superb high-quality molas and to educate more customers about our native Guna Indians, art, culture and traditions.

The Kuna Indians create their own clothes and artwork and call them Molas. A Mola is a piece of cotton with different patterns on stitched on it.

Oct 8, 2020 · On small, sandy islands surrounded by the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, Guna women spend hours every day hand sewing intricate designs into fabric panels destined to form the …

The mola, in Spanish la mola (plural las molas) is a hand-made, multi-layered cotton panel whose complex designs are achieved via different techniques, such as appliqué, reverse appliqué, and …

What is a Mola? Mola, which originally meant bird plumage, is the Kuna Indian word for clothing, specifically blouse, and the word mola has come to mean the elaborate embroidered panels that …