Our history
JOCH’ PISIL:
PRESERVING A CULTURE
Our history
JOCH’ PISIL:
PRESERVING A CULTURE
Textile art embroidered by the hands of women from the Ch'ol and Tzeltal area of Palenque.
Maya Ch’ol is an indigenous Mexican brand created by Isabela Maya, which preserves the Maya culture of Chiapas in textile art.
Combines tradition with contemporary elements, merge current fashion with folk art.
Each piece has a symbolic origin and meaning. It is characterized by the color and design of its embroidery; rhombuses, pyramids or checkered lines, also due to the use of blankets, linen and cotton fabrics, thus giving life to garments with unique designs and a Mexican heart.
Our Mission
Maya Ch'ol is a socially responsible organization that seeks to promote the craft activity of Chol and Tzeltal women, through the production of embroidery, inspiring the Palenca region to retake a part of its culture through its worldview, creating arts of high quality that satisfies the market demand, complying with the requirements of quality and fair trade.
Symbolism
Rhombuses: In embroidery; the rhombuses are the stairs, above is the panchan (sky), then the world where we live: the world of humans and below is the Xibalbá (underworld), it is darkness: infinity, that new world where we go when we die. The center is the union, the duality (man / woman, day / night) the place where we find ourselves, where we acquire wisdom, growth, support, spirituality.
Pyramids: The stairs of the pyramids is meeting with the brother, with the son or friend, the elders lead the other by the hand to teach the other the way of wisdom and when he/she is ready, then he/she can start his journey and instruct to the next one. It is daily life, growing in knowledge day by day, walking, stumbling until one day the chujlel (soul-wisdom) is acquired.
Colors
The colors also have their meaning, red and orange are the colors of the father sun who is the one that gives us life, the guide. The blue and green in ch’ol are not distinguished, each is yäjyäjx which is the blue of the sky and the green of the earth's vegetation. Purple and yellow are the colors of corn and black is the color of the night of Xibalbá.
Tzeltal embroidery
The Tzeltal embroidery has exuberant colors, especially when the roses are decorated, the flowers, regularly colored fuchsia and red, also represent the cosmos with rhombuses and icons of cosmic animals such as the snake, rabbits, toad, scorpion among others.
Expression of indigenous art
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