Xiguiea - Grecas Teotitlan wool

Xiguiea - Grecas Teotitlan woolSize: 80x150cm; 2. 6x5ft Weaver: Familia Gutierrez Materials and 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: the first stripes represent smile and laughter that are the source of healing. The central diamond figure represents the Eye of the Feathered

when their journey to Mictlan is almost finished

The center pattern in this first section represents the moth that flies at night

Weaver: Francisco Ruiz

Jiuhquilitl (indigo)

Master Weaver: Justino Martínez Mendoza

There are many ancient stories of wise turtle people that kept ancient knowledge alive and had the power of vision

so this rug

This rug is the perfect blend of blue skies and the blue tinted mountains that surrounds our ancestral lands

The fifth pointed cross represents the axis mundi and the apparent journey of the sun above the sky and to the underworld

Words Associated with beaæs are powerful: Jaguar (governors)

some medicines from the doctor and lots of herbal remedies

Perhaps what our ancestors understood is that before the big bang there was this singularity where all the cosmos was condensed into divine matter that choose to create itself as the universe that we perceive today