Valle Zapoteco tesselation

Valle Zapoteco tesselationSize: 2x3ft 60x100cm Weaver: Dominga These natural wool colors are achieved by combining white and black wool in different proportions. This design transcends the duality of black and white thinking and seeks for a blend of harmony and balance. The rug depicts the cycle of life and the eye of the feather snake encircled in a ritual of candles and smile stripes. The second rug is the last three sets of pictures, a rug from the same batch and almost

The cycle of life pattern was woven as a frame for the rug

a temporal migrant worker

grasses and a hint of rain in the middle to bring in that hope for rain when the situation gets though

each step (rectangle) represents 13 years of life

our ancestors took pride in living long

Synthetic dyes

Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed and wool rayon blend for warp

Francisca Hipólito Variant 1

simbolically this put the jaguar as the lord of the underword and the cosmos

Other symbols symbol have six segments that add up to 78 years of maturity

Unfortunately in our Zapotec culture we stopped using the sacred frog and toad medicines due to the Spanish genocide to our people and the Catholic persecution of our rituals

This is why the mezcal made with agaves elevates our spirit to the heavens