The colors of the nigth: biguiidy (moth) tesselation

The colors of the nigth: biguiidy (moth) tesselationSize: 80x160cm: 2.. 6ft x 5. 2ft Weaver: Adrian Vicente 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. Design patterns and symbols This rug depicts the moth pattern in many variations and colors. Moth represents the knowedge that comes with night. The Zapotec deity

My Auntie Maria Mendez Contreras and her son Justino Martinez Mendez were pioneers in reviving the agave weaving techniques in our village

as scientist explain

showing the color transition of our landscape between the dry and the rainy season

This rug depicts a hald diamond of the Eye of the feather snake which we call the agave pattern

the kidneys

A person that balances the four types of awareness becomes a Nahual

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

But my favourite type of dancing is very primordial and raw

On an ethical perspective native people have a deep sense of giving back to nature during for their wild food gathering and hunting

Weaver: Omar Mendoza

Tejido usando una trama de algodón de 7 hilos por pulgada

from the foods that we eat that grew with sunlight or fed on sunlight to the the iron in our blood that was created by the explosion of a supernova millions of years ago