Beæz guie'a: water lily jaguar arearugs

Beæz guie'a: water lily jaguar arearugsSize: 81x121cm; 32x47. 6in Materials and methods: merino fine yarns and criollo sheep wool hand dyed with indigo (blues), tagetes lucida (yellows), cochineal (purple and pinks). Colorfast aniline dyes for the red and tans hand dyed in exhaustive dye vat. This tapestry work was handwoven on a Zapotec walking loom of the 16th century style using a 7 ends per inch reed. Weaver: Gabino Ruiz B. The sacres Jaguar reoresents the Bez energy that connects us

tagetes lucida and coffee/cochineal

indigo has been used in our continent since about 6000 years ago

This rug depicts a hald diamond of the Eye of the feather snake which we call the agave pattern

Atardecer en Teotitlan del Valle

Belen wove seeds with the fire pattern to show the relationship between fire and and some pine seeds that need exposure to fire to sprout

These 1900's ponchos embraced the same idea and the more intricate they got the more they signified satus and wealth (sadly so) but also great achievements in the fight for freedom during the Mexican Revolution

this little diamond also represents the journey of the sun in each point: sunrise

chillies and flowers in what was the very firs food forests of the continent

May this time of #covid19 and #slowingdown bring much needed #introspection into what is important in our #lives

This maybe the reason  why each day was assigned a different direction in our ancestral calendar in the Anahuac civilization

state and nationally

Frida arrived on the first day of school and had no lesson prepared