Death Skull Embroidery

The skull is a literary composition in traditional verse in Mexico. Usually they are written on the eve of the Day of the Dead.

Formerly known as pantheons, these verses were born in the nineteenth century as a farcical epitaph and as a way to express ideas or feelings that other opportunities would be difficult decir, were often censored or destroyed since, so I said earlier, also served as a means to express discontent with politicians época, the first skulls were published in 1879 in the newspaper El Socialista, of Guadalajara.

The drawings that accompany the verses are known by the name of La Calavera Catrina or Garbancera, 4 figure created by Jose Guadalupe Posada and baptized by the muralist Diego Rivera.5