Otomi tenango embroidery is the rainbow-saturated chain-stitch cloth of the Hñähñu people of Hidalgo, Mexico. Deer, jaguars, birds, and flowers — all rendered the same size, all floating without horizon on white cotton — make up a cosmology where every being holds equal weight.

Born from pre-Columbian cave paintings and amate-bark art, the modern tenango emerged in the 1960s when Tenango women turned ancient motifs into embroidered textiles for commerce. Today, a tenango cloth reads like a flat tapestry of equally-important life, stitched in hot pink, sun yellow, and acid green against bold blue or white ground.