Guerreras Zapotecas: Cloud People Warriors nativedesign

Guerreras Zapotecas: Cloud People Warriors nativedesignSize: 60x100cm; 2x3ft Weaver: Cristina, San Miguel del Valle Price: 150 USD Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool dyed with natural dyes: Be (Dactylopius coccus Costa, cochineal), Yauhtli (Tagetes Lucida) and Xiuhquilitl (indigo, indigofera suffroticosa). 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. Our

grow your own food and restore the ecosystems tending the land and planting wild foods in the ecosystem then the impact of living on earth becomes positive

Patterns and symbols: the cycle of life pattern in the center of the rug is the symbol one gets by joining both hands at the tips of the fingers similar to a mudra

The word Beu means moon but pronounced slightly different Beuû means coyote or wolf because they too have a strong connection to the moon with their howling and their nocturnal activity

He recovered this pattern that his father used to weave and is taking the time to teach her daugther pictured here with her fiancé who is from another village

Patterns and symbols: Don Jacinto and I played around with some ideas around the rainy season wich brings us joy

Belen Bautista

ants (corn seed keepers

Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed and a hemp warp

We asked Elia to make an abstract design is inpired from patterns found in the shape of our Sierra Madre del Norte moutain range

sacred elder

Then we have ten eye of the feather snake symbols that represent the balance of our four types of awareness as we seek knowledge and wisdom to guide our lives

maize is our staple and spiritual food so we are the people made of corn