II Chapter Two LasCuatro Costumbres de la Cooperativa 03 / 12
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Four customs that hold the panel together.

One pot, many hands.

MamaForty-two stitchers share a single soup-kitchen scene. Every figure stays the same height, so no one's labour outranks another's.

Saturated, never washed-out.

Six to ten vermilions, cobalts and marigolds layer in one composition. Pastels betray the festival; we keep the dye-pot full.

The cordillera stays in frame.

Sky, mountain, village, courtyard — four horizontal bands anchor every panel. The eye climbs the page the way a footpath climbs the Andes.

Every stitch signs a name.

Hands are uneven; threads land where they land. We leave the seams visible so the panel remembers who held the needle that afternoon.