Paraguay hopes to achieve the urgent safeguarding of the Poncho Para'i from 60 stripes with the help of UNESCO - .::Agencia IP::.

Paraguay hopes to get the 60 stripes Poncho Para'i to be entered next week on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding from UNESCO. The Poncho Para'i from 60 lists is a handmade piece made with techniques whose viability is at risk. Currently, only a dozen artisans make the extraordinary fabric.

Asunción, Agencia, IP.- Paraguay hopes to get the 60 list Poncho Para’i to be entered next week on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding from UNESCO. The Poncho Para’i from 60 stripes is a handmade piece made with techniques whose viability is at risk. Currently, only a dozen artisans make the extraordinary fabric.

In an interview with Tribuna, broadcast by Paraguay TV, the Director of Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Paraguayan Institute of Crafts (IPA), Zulma Masi, reported that next week, the 18th Meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee will be held in Botswana, where Paraguay aims to receive the Declaration of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity for the Poncho Para’i from 60 stripes.

In the interview with the state channel, Masi explained that this poncho has three parts: «the body, which is the central part, which has 60 stripes; the entire body of the poncho is finely woven by hand with very fine mercerized cotton threads; the part of the guard or the «fajita», which is part of the neck and made separately, and the fringes that are also made between two artisans.

«The entire production process of this takes considerable time that the artisans divide between their domestic activities,» Masi explained.