Charlotte Patera's

Notes

One thing that Charlotte enjoys is scanning a mola into Photoshop and then creating each step of its making digitally to explain the different stages of how it is made.
What is Charlotte's favorite mola? What is her first and oldest mola? - Answers below. E-mail Charlotte your favorite mola.
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These four molas show a recent trend. The Kuna women are finding printed patterns on fabrics which are used for the foundation of the design. They then embellish the foundation fabric with their traditional work. You can see the original fabric below each one before the work was applied to it. Very clever!

This bird mola may be a "trade mola" intended to sell to tourists or it may be an unfinished mola. Charlotte "finished" it digitally, as a traditional mola.


See it enlarged

 



"Favorite Sun"
Charlotte's favorite mola



First Mola, purchased in 1965
Since this is an older mola it is larger, made when the mola was gathered to the yoke. It contains some printed fabric which was found in details on the molas at that time.

 



"Pringles Potato Chips"
Charlotte's almost favorite mola
Do you recognize the mustachioed man
from the potato chip tube?

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