Amor de mamá simple living

Amor de mamá simple livingWeaving size: 26x24cm, 10x9. 5in Lenght with handdle: 41cm; 16in Weaver: Leonor Lazo Gonzlez (r. i. p) Sewing and crochet: Magal CapdeVilla Price: $3,000 MXN Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with natural dyes: B (cochineal); a blend of pomegranate skins, cempasuchitl (marigold) and Yahutli (Tagetes Lucida) for yellow and indigo for blue. Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using

it represents the feathers of the bird

Weaver: Don Calixto Ruiz

I have been playing with this idea since 2007 before I left to study for my PhD in Sustainable Manufacturing

natural dyes

they are natural seers of the great spirit and its manifestations

and agave plants among other plantcestors

The center of this diamond pattern has a butterfly that represents the wisdom and love that comes to us when we see the world through the eye of creator

In the world of the abstract geometry we are crated and to the abstract geometric world we shall return

mirando hacia "abajo"

When one gets the shivers not for cold physical reasons but due to a psycological reason

This rug is inpired from the ancient idea that this earthly existence is thanks to the balance of energies from the sky (blue from Indigo) and earth (red from cochineal) and that our role as humanity is to help maintain that delicate balance that makes life possible

To stand up in front of it