Sierra Norte: dain ro'w Color:Cool teals

Sierra Norte: dain ro'w Color:Cool tealsSize: 60x100cm; 2x3ft Weaver: Toa La negra Materials and methods: Fine merino and angora blend yarns for the background and criollo sheep wool for the details. Hand dyed with aniline dyes in an exhaust method for color fastness. 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 starts with rows of the rain

The center figure has the Tobaco pattern with the eye of the feathered serpent in the middle

Our people are open hearted and always have a smile to greet locals and strangers

and henequen--all dyed with natural dyes

My Auntie Maria lost her husband when he was in his early 50s

Tamaño: 130x200cm

It is the life cycle of a nahual (a wise woman or man) that has united the spiritual world and the material world and can communicate with the great spirits in the sky

Black Zapote and Pecan shells

Weaver: Nereo Gutierrez

This desgin was sketched by Samuel Bautista Lazo to depict the cosmic snake element in the eye of the feather snake that is used to represent lightnings

Al igual que Don Crecensio quien mantuvo su campamento en Xiguie'a (Teotitlan del Valle) Emiliano Zapata fué un Nahual en toda la extensión de la palabra y el mito

Weaver: Ruben Luis Ruiz

taken from the wikipedia entry: