I have a couple of these that i wanted to scan but I’m not about to take em out of the frames they are in so i just googled some that look like mine. I actually tried to make a mola years back and was very unsuccessful. Maybe I’ll try again soon.
In Dulegaya, the Kuna’s native language, “mola” means “shirt” or “clothing”. The mola originated with the tradition of Kuna women painting their bodies with geometrical designs, using available natural colours; in later years these same designs were woven in cotton, and later still, sewn using cloth bought from the European settlers of Panamá.


