Cover a regular open canvas mesh with compact diagonal needlepoint stitches and grouped yarn colours, keeping the image clearly stitch-built, like a Maya backstrap-woven textile. Ixchel, the Maya goddess of weaving, the moon and healing, a serene older woman seated at a backstrap loom in a tall frame: a dignified figure with long dark hair crowned by a coiled serpent, a woven tunic with stepped patterns, a rabbit on her lap, a jar of water pouring from the sky, a crescent moon above and a ceiba tree beside her.
Light: a soft silver-blue moonlight from the upper right striking her hair and the loom threads in pale blue and cream yarn, the tunic in rich red, ochre, turquoise and black stepped yarn bands, the night in deep indigo stitches; palette of indigo, red, ochre, turquoise, cream and moon white; warm, gentle, handwoven, dignified.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the figure rising through the height of the frame. A dignified, respectful depiction in an authentic Mesoamerican spirit; no readable glyphs, hieroglyphs, inscriptions, letters or logos anywhere, only plain stepped-fret and geometric borders.
