Chilean arpilleras are small burlap panels stitched in secret by women whose families were disappeared under the Pinochet dictatorship. Working in church basements under the protection of Santiago's Vicaría de la Solidaridad, they cut cotton scraps into naive figures — raised hands, prison fences, soup kitchens, doves — and appliquéd them onto coarse jute sacking, embroidering captions like "¿Dónde están?" in woolen yarn.
As a design system the arpillera translates that urgent, handmade witness into jute-khaki page grounds, primary-color fabric-block accents, hand-stitched letterforms, soft woolen-yarn borders, and asymmetric narrative compositions where every panel tells a single irreducible story.
智利缝绣布画（arpillera）是皮诺切特独裁时期失踪者家属——主要是妻子和母亲——在圣地亚哥团结主教代理处的教堂地下室秘密缝制的小幅麻布拼贴画。她们用棉布碎片剪出朴拙的人形、铁丝网、施粥站和白鸽，缝贴在粗麻布底上，用毛线绣出"他们在哪里？"的控诉字样，再经教会渠道走私出境募资。
作为设计体系，缝绣布画将这种地下抗争的手工质感转化为麻布土黄色页面底色、原色棉布色块强调、手缝字体、柔软毛线边框和不对称叙事构图——每一块面板讲述一个不可简化的真实故事。