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Study Tours + Study Abroad are personally curated and introduce you to Mexico's greatest artisans. They are off-the-beaten path, internationally recognized. We give you access to where people live and work. Yes, it is safe and secure to travel. Groups are limited in size for the most personal experience.
Programs can be scheduled to meet your travel plans. Send us your available dates.
Designers, retailers, wholesalers, universities and other organizations come to us to develop customized itineraries, study abroad programs, meetings and conferences. It's our pleasure to make arrangements.
Our Clients Include *Penland School of Crafts *North Carolina State University *WARP Weave a Real Peace *Methodist University
Tell us how we can put a program together for you! Send an email norma.schafer@icloud.com
Hands-on Workshops
1. Oaxaca Natural Dye Workshops: Choose 1, 2 or 3 Days Set your own dates.
2. 4-Day Tapestry Weaving Workshop: Dancing on the Loom Set your own dates.
Day Tours on Your Schedule
1-Day Natural Dye + Weaving Study Tour. Visit home studios. Includes lunch, transportation to/from Oaxaca city. Ask us to arrange yours.
1-Day Ocotlan Highway Folk Art Study Tour. Visit woodcarvers, back-strap loom weavers, museums and markets. Ask us to take you.
1-Day Tlacolula Valley Folk Art Study Tour. Visit weavers, potters, an antique dealer, apron-making cooperative, archeological sites.
2020 Programs: DEEP, NOT WIDE
2021 Going Deep, Not Wide
With a watchful eye for COVID-19, we are evaluating whether to hold or cancel the December 2020 Writing Workshop, and the 2021 study tours to the Oaxaca Coast and Chiapas.
Stay Healthy. Stay Safe. Wear your mask.
Questions? Want more info or to register? Send an email norma.schafer@icloud.com norma.schafer@icloud.com
We send printable map via email PDF usually within 48-hours after order received. Where to see natural dyed rugs in Teotitlan del Valle and layout of the Sunday Tlacolula Market, with favorite eating, shopping, ATMs. Click Here to Buy Map
thank you, norma. i can wait until october for you to check with manuel reyes. do you know his price range? carolyn
Carolyn, the small pieces usually start at around 400-500 pesos. The larger pieces can go up to several thousand pesos. It’s a big range!
norma, would you be able to get a manuel reyes piece for me? i am interested in his hand. (i saw it on your site on feb 19, 2014). if yes, please let me know the price and the cost of shipping. thank you, carolyn
Carolyn, I saw Manuel Reyes on Saturday and he has returned to Yanhuitlan. I just got your request today. I won’t be going to visit him again until late October. Yanhuitlan is in the Mixteca, almost two hours from Oaxaca. I am sorry I won’t be able to help you with your request now, but when I go in October I will try to take photos and see what he has. I am sorry to disappoint you. -Norma
Norma! I would have bought that rug the two dimpled women were holding in a second!
Thanks for showing us what we missed! There’s always more
(thankfully) !
Hi Lynn, yes there are always more! This one is special– woven with gold threads, 22 threads per inch and a fine macrame border. If you want it it can find out cost, send you a PayPal invoice and get it to you by “friend courier” in mid August. It’s a wall tapestry. Not to walk on! Abrazos, Norma
Love my pineapple candles from Viviana Hipolito (Teotitlán del Valle) and am jones-ing for the perro by sculptor Manuel Reyes from Yanhuitlán. Kudos Norma for organizing the sale!
Shannon, come back. The Perro is still here. Thank you for supporting Velas Viviana. Mwah.