arpillera

arpillera [también harpillera, menos usado] s. f. Tejido fuerte y áspero, generalmente de estopa, que se usa sobre todo para hacer sacos y para embalar.

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arpillera 

f. Tejido de yute o de estopa de cáñamo para hacer sacos y cubiertas.

Tesauro

arpillera

sustantivo femenino

harpillera, halda, malacuenda, rá­zago.

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arpillera: estopa

Traducciones

arpillera imballo, terzone, traliccio

arpillera SF → sacking, sackcloth

ARPILLERA

Arpilleras is the term used for the colourful pictures made in many parts of Latin America by appliquéing scraps of fabric onto a hessian backing. During the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile they became politically significant since working-class women used them to depict the reality of life under military rule. As these arpilleras escaped the scrutiny of the male-dominated regime, they provided women with a means of recording events as well as obtaining income from abroad.