Saguaro forms ans cactus flowers master dyersOur friend Fortino Ruiz Lopez has just finished this vibrant and amazing rug inspired in Frank Lloyd Wright's Saguaro forms and Cactus Flowers featured on the cover of Liberty Magazine. Fortino took upon the challenge motivated by his cousins. The process of weaving all this squares and circles is very tedious and requires lots of concentration. We weaves early in the morning and takes a break in the afternoon to play basketball with his friends to
The birds represents the spiritual energy that connects us to the sky and the lightning pattern represents the cosmic snake that descends from the sky to announce the rains
Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with natural dyes: Bèé (cochineal) and Xiuhquilitl (indigo)
The gods gathered and blew the spirit into them to have them come to life
Weaver: Dionisio from San Miguel del Valle
Our ancestors saw that our journey in life is much like those little wild flowers
Copal is only used in the most important ceremonies and celebrations such as weddings
hare and many other species
It just so happens that the synodic period of Venus (584 days) relates to the orbital period of the earth (365 days) in a relatively simple ratio of 5:8
red (shniiá) and the word clean are the same (niiā) which also relate to the word hand (niîá)
Yauhtli (tagetes lucida) and Béé (cochineal)
Indigenous people in this continent have maintained traditional fire burns to tend the land and prevent the overacumulation of organic matter that fuels wild fires
Juan Lazo Gutierrez is a Mariachi musician and given the pandemic he has not been able to work playing music which is his big passion in life so now he retreated back to the looms and started to weave again after a long break
