Pachuca, Hgo., As a prelude to National Embroidery Day (July 30), in Hidalgo the exhibition of the largest jatzi or tenango in the world is held, which was made by hand by master weavers from San Nicolás and other towns in the municipality of Tenango de Doria, in the Otomí-Tepehua region.
The tenango, which even has the Guinness record for the largest in the world and represents the map of Mexico, measures 15.14 by 6.89 meters. It has a total of 103.76 square meters distributed in 50 sections of 25 canvases, each measuring 29.40 by 27.7 centimeters.
According to the technical sheet, it was embroidered by 1,247 artisans and drawn by 167 artists. Its planning took four months of work and, for its design, plus 21 days of embroidery and assembly.
The piece, exhibited in the lobby of the Gota de Plata theater in the city of Pachuca, was embroidered with the technique houndstooth cross
. The master craftsmen used 1,500 hoops to embroider the fabric.
Norberta González Jiménez, a master craftsman from the town of Damu, in the municipality of Tenango de Doria, 64 years old, 50 of which she has dedicated to making tenangos, said that this embroidery was based on one she made in 2019, with which won a contest from the National Fund for the Promotion of Crafts, a public trust of the federal government.
Governor Omar Fayad liked it and said it should become huge
he told The Conference Norberta González, who had to create one of the panels of the largest tenango in the world.
Although the composition is the same as that made by Norberta González, some iconography of the animals changed; However, it is very similar to the meter-high tenango that the master craftsman made five years ago.
To make it, Norberta commented that she worked for three months and that the inspiration came from her son, Víctor Ortega González, who asked her to make a tenango for him with the composition of the map of Mexico and the animals and plants native to each region.
At 15 years old, Norberta González learned to make tenangos in her high school, where there was a sewing workshop. I liked it and I have been making tenangos for 50 years.
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