After a trip to St. Vincent de Paul, which gained me nothing once again, I stopped at the Goodwill Outlet store. I was looking in one of the last few bins left when I found a vintage souvenir photo folder. That gave me hope there would be more! There were, two more folders, and a postcard booklet from Taxco, Mexico. I had to gather up some of the interior pages of the Canadian folders that had fallen out.
There were also vintage postcards from the US, Canada, and Mexico. By vintage I mean prior to 1970 when the 3.5" x 5.5" was "standard size" in the US and Europe. Now postcards are 4" x 6" which are called Continental size, because that was the standard size in Europe decades before the US adopted it. In the US postage for postcards (65¢) is limited to 4.25" x 6" at the largest. They also have to be a minimum of 3.5" x 5" and be rectangular.
The top postcard is Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City with its historic canals and artificial floating gardens. The arched boats are trajineras. A few weeks ago Thursday Postcard Hunt's theme was UNESCO sites, and this is one of them, as part of the landscape is an "ecological reserve."
I also rescued this serigraph, or silkscreen print from 1965. No frame, but the mat bears the label of an out-of-business local frame shop. This is a print from the portfolio El
Traje Indígena en México (Indigenous Dress of Mexico), the illustrations by Teresa
Castelló Yturbide. It shows the traditional dress of the Tzotzil
Maya people from San Andrés Larráinzar, Chiapas, Mexico.
The
Man's Attire:
He
is shown wearing a traditional black-and-white striped woolen cotón
(tunic/poncho),
cinched at the waist with a hand-woven sash (faja).
He wears a highly distinctive palm-leaf hat (sombrero
de palma)
decorated with colorful hanging ribbons, which holds specific civic
and religious meaning within the community. He carries a rifle and a
woven fiber shoulder bag (morral).
The Woman's Attire:
She
is seated combing her long hair, wearing the community's signature
white huipil
(traditional
blouse). The upper chest area features heavy geometric supplementary
weft embroidery, typically displaying symbols like the Mayan cross,
stars, and local flora. She wears a deep blue woven wrap skirt
(enredo).
The
Loom Material:
Spread
on the ground in front of them is a folded piece of brocaded textile
showing the geometric patterns still made today on traditional
backstrap looms.
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And... I'm not done yet!
A page from a fashion magazine, like Harper's Bazar or Godey's Lady's Books) or catalog c. 1868-1873. This was
protected by cardboard and in a plastic sleeve.
Two of the regular Bin employees, when hearing how happy I was to
have found postcards, said they come across them now and again,
and will set them aside for me!
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