Beæl niis: water snake color feastSize: 130x200cm; 4. 2x6. 5ft Materials ans methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with colorfast aniline dyes using an exhaustive method. Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed. Master Weaver: Santiago Mendez Martnez Design, patterns and symbols. This abstract design represents the diamond that is found in the skin of many snakes, a figure that remind us to live a life
We come up north to do the work not so many are eager to do from farming and growing your food
and kick start the year because this date also coincides with the transition of spring to summer
depicted as the Quincunce (five pointed cross) inside the diamond
I helped her to weave it a little bit whenever I had a break from farmwork
the triangle is one of the basic building blocks for our traditional symbols
This sacred peak is where our town was founded since the last melt of the ice age when the whole central valley was a lake and our ancestors arrived following signs of a Macaw bird that appeared from the sky among thunder
In this light
Justino and Belen usually weave intricate and collectible rugs but we decided to make a batch that don't require so much of an investment to make in hopes that they sell faster
makes a diamond shape to represent the window to the spirit world
Rainbows are so sacred one is forbiden to point with the fingers at them
The blue represents all these streams of water that are reuniting and coming together from all the four corners
In one of these schools they were taught the way of the warrior: there are many rites of passage and tests they had to pass
