The San Blas–also called Mulatas–Islands stretch along 100 miles of Panama coastline and are home ... art form in a reverse applique called ”mola” embroidery. Indeed, when you first ...

The textile art began in the San Blas Islands, an archipelago off the northern coast of Panama that’s part of the Guna Yala Region, where many Guna people continue to live. A mola is known for ...

San Blas is an archipelago of 378 smallish islands, home of the indigenous Kuna people, who were driven from the mainland during the Spanish invasion hundreds of years ago. In 1925 the Kuna fought ...

Molas, a traditional textile craft ... They originated in Panama, with the women of the Kuna tribe in the San Blas islands. But they have fans worldwide. They’re in museum collections from ...

“The San Blas are unique because of the authenticity of the people, the beauty of the sand beach islands and their coral reefs, and the fact that Panama ... a boatload of molas, the magnificent ...

Ever since I’d arrived in Panama, I’d been hearing about San Blas, an archipelago of more than 350 islands in the Caribbean ... a handwoven mola cloth like the ones worn by the indigenous ...

And, in fact, the more than 360 San Blas Islands are extraordinarily beautiful. Clustered off Panama`s Caribbean coast ... traditional mola blouses, with beaded bracelets, anklets and gold ...