Entre la artesanía y el diseño se produce el bordado salasaca

The execution of artistic and craft practices have been transformed since the middle of the last century in the Salasaca community, which has influenced gender roles; however, the female presence is still maintained in the production of embroidery. The ini-tial idea with which these embroidered motifs were developed has changed as the creators have approached the field of fashion design. There is an iconographic difference between the embroidery on the men’s catatumba and yerbabuena underwear and those displayed on the women’s blouses and the dancers’ scarves. These embroideries reflect syncretic pro-cesses that have been experienced within the community and that are reflected in this type of artistic-visual representations. In the embroidery, it is possible to observe hybrid representations of popular festivals that combine native and mestizo customs, along with animals typical of pre-Columbian mythology, and others, even not endemic to this geo-graphical area, which, however, currently form part of the from the repertoire of traditio-nal motifs.In this process, a search of textile artifacts has been carried out, from which an image bank will be generated that in the future will allow the establishment of a cataloging of these motifs, which are intended to be analyzed from their aesthetic and stylistic components. It seeks then to understand which elements stand out in the current processes of creating embroidery in a shared framework between artisan practices, design, and the field of in-digenous or ethnic fashion.