This is a typical top collar for a Vélez folk dress, embroidered with a blue palette of pansies and decorated in pink beads to give it extra glitter.

This typical peasant costume is decorated with ribbons and hand embroidered roses. The skirt has a complete bouquet designed on the front in green and yellow beads, acrylic applications and an eyelet bordered underskirt which gives the whole outfit a youthful flare.

This typical peasant costume is hand embroidered and decorated in wildflowers called cecilitas. Beads in iridescent black add an elegant touch to the elaborate collar and flower bouquets of this special evening gown.

This detail of a pleated skirt is colourfully decorated in zinnia flowers, or colegialas (schoolgirls), as they are commonly known in Colombia. Butterflies and the glimmer of beads and acrylics enhance the garden imagery of this typical skirt.

This is a typical top collar of a Vélez folk dress, embroidered with fuchsia Lady Banks roses and green foliage.