Based off of cliff painting in the Tepehua-Otomi mountains or possibly inspired by cave paintings in the Mexican Plateau area are these eye catching Otomi textiles. While some of the shapes tend to be more abstract, most of them are based on motifs that can date back to hundreds of years ago.

The beading style known as Huichol (pronounced wet-chol) is generally ascribed to a process of covering a 3-dimensional form in a single layer of beads, like a mosaic, but with distinctive patterns using geometric shapes and bright colors.