Fandango wedding meditation rug

Fandango wedding meditation rugFandango Wedding. Size: 60x100cm; 2x3ft Materials and methods: Hemp and agave warp. Criollo sheep wool, agave fibers, and henequen all dyed with natural dyes. Turkey feathers were added for ceremonial touch. This rug was woven on a Zapotec walking loom of the XVI century style using a 7 threads per inch reed. Weaver: Beln Bautista Ruiz Patterns and symbols: this rug depicts the fire pattern in stripes that run along the width of the rug, knowledge and

This piece is a reflection (literaly and geometrically speaking) of her life and trajectory as a weaver

Time and time again Europeans have showed up here to gather plants

Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with natural dyes: Yauhtli  (Tagetes Lucida)

Barrow in his book of Nothing praises the ancient calendar and points out that it was so precise in the accounting of time that it took moderns astronomers using high computing power and precise atomic clocks to realize that the calendar system makes a mistake of 0

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not IKEA's rugs that steal our patterns and symbols

with its jump

Mario helped us plant our corn this season

then using sacred plants

Patterns and symbols: the rug is framed with a cycle of life pattern to remind us of our fragility on this earth and the mortal dream that we are experiencing

The cactus represents the ideal of a long lived life that flourished and has prolonged death to the maximun

elders are still very reluctant to having their picture taken but Don Faustino agreed to pose so that we can showcase their rugs online