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Illustration inspired in waist bands elaborated by indigenous women from the green foothills of Imbabura or the desolate and windy paramos (highlands) of Chimborazo. These women traditionally have one thing in common in their dress: the elaborate waist band or belt known as chumbi in the Quichua language, or faja in Spanish. The waist bands vary from region to region and from weaver to weaver. Yet this simple article of clothing is valuable not only for its practicality, but also because it holds decorative elements, and symbolism (see pages 14-16).
