Bælguiææ: flowered snake natural dyed

Bælguiææ: flowered snake natural dyedBlgui: flowered snake Size: 60x75cm Master weaver: Justino Martnez Price at check out shows in Mexican pesos. Materials and methods: yute fiber hand dyed with Xiuhqulitl (indigofera sufroticosa). Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed and a wool rayon blen warp. Desing, patterns and symbols. This pattern represents the ever journer of awareness of the universe that

The finished rug was  tie dyed with Xiuhquilitl (indigofera suffruticosa)

When they married

This poncho has stripes with the smile pattern which remind us that laughing and smiling is the source of all healing

Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles

This rug depicts the constellation of the Pleiads

Our ancestors kept the calendar of the Sun and  Venus and realised that every 52 years the calendars coincide perfectly and Venus appears exactly in the same spot in the Pleiads

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We weave the butterfly symbol as two inverted triangles that look like a sand clock with the antennas stylized in the middle of the sand clock

This rug has a frame made of agave plants

feather snake) a tool that help us navigate the earth in its four directions but also the spiritual/dream world

When we dance we pray for the rains to fall on our land

The symbol of the feather snake has been called a reptile