Beniguie'æ: the pleiads orage

Beniguie'æ: the pleiads orageSize: 40x100cm; 16in by 3ft Weaver: Belen Bautista Price: 140USD Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool spun in the mills of Tianguistengo. Hand dyed yarns by Leonor Lazo using natural dyes: Yauhtli (Tagetes lucida) and Xiuhquilitl (Indigofera Suffroticosa). Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed and wool rayon blend for warp. Design, patterns and symbols. This rug

Zapotec kids grow up learning the language of the dream world and being initiated by their abuelas and mothers for whom every aspect of the dayly life can be linked to a momment in the dream state and viceversa

our elders also introduced letters from the Spanish alphabet and took pride in weaving words and phrases into textiles

Patterns and symbols: this rug depicts the fire pattern in stripes that run along the width of the rug

Thanks to the Northern Sierra a lot of the humidity of the Cold fronts coming from the Gulf of Mexico gets trapped forming the cloud forests of the higher mountains

Weaver: Dionisio

Wherever he used to work in the fields is just built up and overtaken by the city

the birth place of civilizations

Hand woven by Zenaida on a Zapotec walking loom of the 16th century style using a 7 threads per inch reed

Size: 216x303cm

20 days for the rest of the world

It is recorded that the big library in Tenochtitlan burned for seven days

we come from the underworld to grow and flourish for short period