The mola forms part of the traditional costume of a Kuna woman, with two mola panels incorporated as front and back panels in a blouse. The full costume traditionally includes a patterned wrapped skirt (saburet), a red and yellow headscarf (musue), arm and leg beads (wini), a gold nose ring (olasu), and earrings, in addition to the mola blouse (dulemor).
In the Kuna's native language, "mola" means "shirt" or "clothing". The mola originated from the tradition of Kuna women painting their bodies with geometrical designs, using available natural colors; in later years, these same designs were woven into cotton, and later still, sewn using cloth bought from the European settlers of Panama.
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