While demonstrating the physically hard life of the women laundry workers, this arpillera, created in the early years of the Pinochet dictatorship and acquired in 1983, also reflects on the continuity of life in the midst of chaos. Here in the routine of their daily work of scrubbing, washing and beating the dust from the clothes brought to the laundry, there is a kind of normality and peace, absent and unattainable in the bigger picture.
Received by Museo Nacional Bellas Artes de Chile collection as a donation from Conflict Textiles on the 19th March 2024.
Registered into the collection under the number N 1/006/2024.
This is an outcome and follow up from the exhibition Arpilleras Poéticas and the incorporation of arpilleras into the museum. | 
