Cochineal trails wedding gifts

Cochineal trails wedding giftsSize: 130x200cm; 4. 2x6. 5ft Materials and methods: fine merino sheep wool hand dyed with cochineal dyes . Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed. Master Weaver: Mario Bautista Martinez

The birds represents the spiritual energy that connects us to the sky and the lightning pattern represents the cosmic snake that descends from the sky to announce the rains

Materials and methods: Criollo sheep wool hand dyed with colorfast aniline dyes using the exhaustive method

In our cosmology it is a Macaw bird that guide our people to a perfect land where we have settled now

Our only true tools in our spiritual journey are flowers (beauty

Her sister and younger brother got infected too

because when we are made aware of our mortal existence

a change in our attitude is the first step towards healing

but it goes deeper than that

medicine and power

adapted from European looms

the soil diversity is so rich that most soil maps are over simplified because the soil changes so much even within short distances

boho style look