Reeni: Lucy in a Sky of Diamonds 2 snake

Reeni: Lucy in a Sky of Diamonds 2 snakeSize: 80x150cm; 2. 6x5ft Weaver: Jacinto Gutierrez Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with natural dyes: Xiuhquilitl (indigo) . Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed using a wool rayon blend for the warp. Patterns and symbols: this design depicts vissions of the solar cross that come when we join our plane of existence with the sky or underworld

and henequen--all hand dyed with natural dyes

It depicts a frame of agaves surrounding the eye of the feather snake--the diamond pattern

trading and forming social bonds

We call this symbol in our language "Gareak Guiea"

a balanced way of life

The design is inpired on the legend of Crescencio a Nahual who live in our village in the 1900's during the time of the Mexican revolution

This rug has the rabbit in the center of the design to represent fertility and the moon cycles

our ancestors developed and refined agriculture

After a golden era that lasted roughly 1000 years

The most efficient and excellent hunter is also a symbol of fertility and life protection

from the top of the Benito Juárez or Cuajimoloyas' mountains we cann see all the way to the Peak of Orizaba in Veracruz

By purchasing this rug you will be supporting my cousin who is in a legal battle to defend his backyard from being taken away by an out of town person who married into our family and now is selling the land to someone else