Gusiúu: lightning, the cosmic roar of the jaguar ritual rug

Gusiúu: lightning, the cosmic roar of the jaguar ritual rugSize: 30x60cm 4. 9x8. 2ft 12"x24" Weaver: Zenaida, San Miguel del Valle Dyer: Leonor Lazo Gonzlez and Samuel Bautista Lazo Materials and methods: Criollo sheep wool spun in the mills of Tianguistengo. Hand dyed using natural dyes: B (Dactylopius Coccus), Yauhtli (Tagetes lucida), Pomegrante skins and pecan husks shells. Aniline dyes for bright orange and green. Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven

Each step represents a 13 year stage in the life cycle that is marked by a specific rituals from birth to death

You can also drap it on a couch or hang it on a wall

rust and deep maroon

keys and locks etc

blue mountains that bring the rain for our milpa seeds (corn

each step (rectangle) represents 13 years of life

cempasuchitl

When her daughter and her 400 brothers came to kill Coatlicue her son Huitzilipochtli was born as a grown up warrior dressed in armour and war regalia

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

The following pattern is the tail of the scorpion constellation which is the same as the European one

This knowledge survives in all the native communities that are still living with the memory of their ancestors in nowadays Mexico

The smile pattern is woven in a wavy pattern like the rivers