Sonrisa rug pictoric rug

Sonrisa rug pictoric rugSize: 80x150cm; 2. 6x5ft Materials ans 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. Patterns and symbols. This dentated pattern represents the smile as the source of true healing, a medicine that we carry within and that is free and always available. Our ancestors understood the

Her son Justino has become an accomplished weaver too

The duality of the jaguar is complete

All ancient governors in our culture were high Shamans trained in all the fine arts and advanced sciences of the time

Tie dyed using Xiuhquilitl (indigo) overdye vat

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 ancient believe system of the Mexica people teaches that the universe was split in two parts to create the current world

purples and pinks

performing acts that might seem like magic to the untrained eye

we are gathering funds to pay for my mom's surgery likely to happen tomorrow

mother sun

you can use rocks to make fire

These shades of blue represent all these streams of water that are reuniting and coming together from all the four corners