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Our Programs: Study Tours + Workshops
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Dye Workshops All Year. Set Your Own Dates.
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Individuals & Groups Welcome!
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Hands-on Dye Workshops + Textile Experiences
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We offer textile experiences in our studio where we weave and work only in natural dyes.You can see the process during our textile tours, dye workshops or customized weaving experiences. Ask us for more information about these experiences, customized scheduling, and prices.
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Oaxaca Natural Dye Workshops: Choose 1, 2 or 3 Days Set your own dates. Just added: One-Day Indigo Dye Workshop click link for details
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One-Day Custom Tours: Tell Us When You Want to Go!
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Oaxaca has the largest and most diverse textile culture in Mexico! Learn about it.
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When you visit Oaxaca immerse yourself in our textile culture: How is indigenous clothing made, what is the best value, most economical, finest available. Suitable for adults only. Set your own dates.
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1-Day Oaxaca City Collectors Textile Tour. Exclusive Access! We take you into the homes and workshops of Oaxaca State's prize-winning weavers. They come from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Mixteca, Mixe, Amuzgos and Triqui areas and represent their weaving families and cooperatives here. For collectors, retailers, buyers, wholesalers, fashionistas.
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1-Day Ocotlan Highway Folk Art Study Tour. Visit woodcarvers, back-strap loom weavers, museums and markets. Transportation to/from the city. Ask us to take you.
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1-Day Tlacolula Valley Folk Art Study Tour. Visit weavers, potters, an antique dealer, apron-making cooperative, archeological sites.
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2023 Tours, Go Deep, Not Wide
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February 21-March 1, 2023: Chiapas Textile Study Tour--Deep Into the Maya World Based in San Cristobal de las Casas, we travel to distant pueblos to meet extraordinary back strap loom weavers --Best of the Best! SOLD OUT
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July 19, 2023: One-Day Tour to Oaxaca Silk Mecca: San Pedro Cajonos Includes transportation, lunch, expert cultural guide services. Limited to 14 travelers.
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July 20, 2023: One-Day Tour to Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec. Includes transportation, home-cooked lunch, guide and translation services. Limited to 14 travelers.
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November 15-20, 2023: ORIGINAL! A long-weekend in Mexico City to participate in Original! a national textile event featuring 400 of Mexico's best artisans, with talks, VIP party, and a cultural immersion experience. We think this will be mid-November 15-20. Registration is now open!
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2023 Oaxaca Day of the Dead -- Tours to Villages
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October 27, 2023: Day of the Dead Ocotlan Highway Tour. It’s Market Day! The biggest of the year. See special altar food and decor, visit artisans, explore culture, eat at a traditional open air cocina de humo (grill kitchen).
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October 29, 2023: Teotitlan del Valle Altars and Studio Visits to natural dye and weaving artisans who invite you to their altar rooms to share family traditions. Meet a traditional beeswax candlemaker. Eat mole and mezcal in a local family comedor.
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November 1, 2023: Dia de los Muertos in Mitla—Ancient Zapotec Burial Site. One-day Tour. Our host guides us through the cemetery as the village prepares for its dead to return. Includes traditional Mole Negro lunch and altar visits.
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Go on all 3 Day of the Dead Tours -- Get a 10% Discount
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2024 Tours Go Deep, Not Wide
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January 13-21, 2024: Oaxaca Coast Textile Study Tour. Very popular! Get your deposit in to reserve. For intrepid travelers. Visit 7 back-strap loom weavers. Explore the culture of cloth and community. SIX SPACES OPEN!
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February 1- 11, 2024: Bucket List Tour: Monarch Butterflies and Michoacan Folk Art Study Tour. Back by popular demand. 2-days with the butterflies, plus a cooking class! Want to go? Let us know! SOLD OUT!
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February 20-28: Chiapas Textile Study Tour. Ready, set, GO! Registration is open for this dive into Mexico's Maya textile culture. Send an email. A sell-out every year!
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March 7-12: Oaxaca's Mixteca Alta: Textile + Folk Art Study Tour. NEW! We go deep into Oaxaca's coastal mountains to explore weaving, pottery, and basket-making. Come with us!
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Stay Healthy. Stay Safe. In Oaxaca, wear your mask. Questions? Want TO REGISTER or more info? Send an email to Norma Schafer.
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Maps: Teotitlan + Tlacolula Market
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We require 48-hour advance notice for map orders to be processed. We send a printable map via email PDF after your order is received. Please be sure to send your email address. 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 After you click, be sure to check PayPal to ensure your email address isn't hidden from us. We fulfill each map order personally. It is not automatic.
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