The pollera is Panama's national dress: holán and batiste cut into a tiered pollerón, worn over starched enaguas, every surface worked by hand. The gala version is white thread on white cloth; the pollera de labor carries the same floral labor in one colour on the same ground.

This system takes the garment literally. Pages read as laundered cloth before they read as pattern. Content stacks in horizontal tiers separated by ribbon rules, ornament mirrors across a centre axis, and gold — the chains, the peineta combs, the shoe buckles — is the only bright thing on the page.