The flowered path: el camino florido handmade

The flowered path: el camino florido handmadeSize: 80x150cm; 2. 6x5ft Weaver: Dionisio, San Miguel del Valle Price: $500 USD Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool dyed with natural dyes: Be (Dactylopius coccus Costa, cochineal). Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed and wool rayon blend for warp. Design, patterns and symbols. Our ancestors believed that in order for our spirits to flourish we must walk the

to the spiritual/dream world

We have stopped doing the dedicated fire tending that our ancestors used to carry on but when a fire occurs in our mountains the fire management committee oversees the situation and if need be they ring the bells to call for help from the community to manage and tend the fire

you can use rocks to make fire (pyrite and flint)

Let's remember to cleanse our live and surrounding environment with the healing powers of fire

stories and knowledge

Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with natural dyes:  Xiuhquilitl (indigo) for sky world and Bèè (cochineal) for the earth

to teach us how to live a life in balance

mathematicias

In my grandfathers generation they never used plastic and used to meet all their storage needs using clay pots and different types of leaves as siposable wrapping for their food

Though it be made of jade

do yourselfe a favor and stop looking silly buying those mass produced fake Mexican blankets and fakebMexicanbPonchos for 5 de Mayo

but in the sacred mountain where our village was founded there are still acorn/corn grinding holes around a site that has several types of oak trees growing near by