Beniguieæ: the spirit of art and love interior design

Beniguieæ: the spirit of art and love interior designSize: 60x100cm; 2x3ft Weaver: Juan Mendoza Juain Rubez Price: $200USD Materials and 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. Design, patterns and symbols. This rug represents the people whose spirits have blossomed, we call them Beni Guie', the flowered people; they were often

In our village

these seeds are all the plants we sow in our milpa food system (corn

translates as bottom root place of fire/stars

But whatever our spiritual journey might feel like we should know that we are being constantly uplifted and guided by the great spirit and following the path of our ancestors

Jiuhquilitl (indigo)

it could have been that Europeans saw a similarity if Escher's tessellation series with our sacred geometric patterns that are fractal like patterns created thousands of years ago in our culture

The next chunk of earth toned weaving represents the bleeding of the earth due to the unceeding growth of our modern production and consumption system

The ancient cosmology of the Anawak people teaches that the universe was split in two parts to create the current world

Wherever he used to work in the fields is just built up and overtaken by the city

Natural Dyes: Yauhtli (Tagetes lucida) and cochineal

mountains have a direct relationship with lightning and thunder in that Mountains takes us closer to the sky to offer our prayers and also atracting the lightning that announces the rains

The other patterns woven in the frame of this rug is the Nahual pattern that unites the left and right side of our awareness