Galnaza'à: the joy of life medicine rugSize: 130x200cm; 4. 2x6. 5ft 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 with exceptional tensile strenght therefore a thicker and sturdier rug than average. Master Weaver: Annonymous for his her request. Patterns and symbols. This is a very finely woven rug with a lot
Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed
Many volunteers hike up to the mountains and help tend and steer the fire towards safe zones
Criollo sheep wool hand dyed with aniline blue
two weaving cultures meet in blue dreams
We call this symbol in our language "Gareak Guiea"
diamonds from the skin of snakes
Fire and water will collided and be carried by the air in that eternal dance of the elements that can repair our bodies in the womb of the earth like our mothers carried us when we were developing our first organs
from the foods that we eat that grew with sunlight or fed on sunlight to the the iron in our blood that was created by the explosion of a supernova millions of years ago
Materials ans methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with colorfast aniline dyes using an exhaustive method
With the end of the dry season and the first signs of a wet year with showers in February and April Jose Luis wove two rugs with indigo dyed blue to celebrate "flowering water"
Yauhtli (tagetes lucida) and Xiuhquilitl (indigo)
so it is our duty to give back and help maintain the delicate balance of nature
