Oaxaca Coast Textile Study Tour 2021
Arrive on Saturday, January 16 and depart on Monday, January 25, 2021 — 9 nights, 10 days in textile heaven! Trip is limited to 12 participants–6 single rooms and 3 shared rooms. To register, please complete the Registration Form and email it. Cost is $2,795 per person shared room or $3,395 per person for private […]
Oaxaca Indigenous Clothing for Sale: Wearable Art
After a year of walking with some days up to and exceeding 10,000 steps, my beautiful huipiles and blusas no longer fit me. For the next week, I’ll be offering for sale some of my clothing treasures from Durham, North Carolina before I return to Oaxaca on May 11. Most of these are new or […]
Backstrap Loom Weaving of Oaxaca
Nicolasa Pascual is a weaver from San Bartolo Yautepec, Oaxaca. Her work is considered to be the best and finest example of Oaxaca weaving. She uses the backstrap loom, with cotton- warp and weft, synthetic dyes, 1 heddle rod, about 35 ends/threads per inch, plain weave + supplementary weft weave technique. You can see Nicolasa […]
Editing My Collection: Oaxaca Folk Art & Textiles Sale
From time to time, I edit my collection and offer a small number of rugs, hand woven shawls, blouses, pillow covers and other Oaxaca textiles for sale. These include some beautiful cotton brocade blouses hand woven on a backstrap loom from the Amusgos tribe and embroidered beauties from Tehuantepec. The tops from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec […]