Tulum: Zamá amanecer pictoric rug

Tulum: Zamá amanecer pictoric rugSize: 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. Weaver: Carlos Mendoza Design patterns and symbols. The colors of this rug are inspired from the ocean blue and turquoise of the Mayan Rivera. The ziz zag symbol represents lightning; the great

These sacred plants connects us to the roots of the web of life with the help of certain fungi that live in their seeds and produce the substances that alows us to communicate with the spirit world in times of ilness and need

Yauhtli (Tagetes Lucida) and Xiuhquilitl (indigo

It also shows the tremendous sacrifice that the environment has to do in order to feed us

Weaver: Mario Martinez Mendez

the underground

These 1900's ponchos embraced the same idea and the more intricate they got the more they signified satus and wealth (sadly so) but also great achievements in the fight for freedom during the Mexican Revolution

The Gutierrez family takes pride in exploring and creating new patterns and styles rooted in tradition that have spread among other weavers within our village

This pattern is a fractal symbol that teaches us about the perception state that nahuales (shamans) achieve when they unite their nahual (intuition and dreams) perception in the spirit world with the day to day perception in the tonal world of language

In our bodies

Moths represent the wisdom that is brought with the night

The "J" building in the Sacred Jaguar Mountain is aligned with the direction at which the sun rises on the 8th of May and August 5th the sun passes right above our heads in this latitude of the world

they represent the earthly energy and needs that ensure survival