Paraguay · Fine wool-and-cotton striped loom weaving
Poncho Para'í de 60 Listas
The Poncho Para'í de 60 Listas — woven in sixty fine alternating stripes on a traditional loom — is the defining handmade garment of Piribebuy, Cordillera Department, and its ancestral, traditional manufacturing techniques were formally declared Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO on December 5, 2023. According to the community's own historical record, the garment was worn by Marshal Francisco Solano López, the Paraguayan leader whose decisions precipitated the War of the Triple Alliance, and, much later, by celebrated folk musician Luis Alberto del Paraná and his group Los Paraguayos, cementing its status as a preferred garment among Paraguayan folk artists and, today, politicians. Named Maestra Artesana Teotista Salinas, age 92 as of her 2019 formal recognition by the Instituto Paraguayo de Artesanía, remains one of the tradition's most senior living practitioners, and academic linguistic research has separately documented the specific Guaraní-language technical vocabulary used in the poncho's fabrication as part of a broader effort to preserve the specialized language of Piribebuy's traditional weaving craft.
Risk level: Vulnerable · Inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on December 5, 2023, recognizing the ancestral and traditional techniques for manufacturing the Poncho Para'í de 60 Listas of Piribebuy
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