A snapshot of Galeria Fe y Lola rugs and tapestries on exhibition today through Sunday at INDIO in Brightleaf Square, Durham. Color. Quality. Sustainable. 100% natural dyes. Meet Omar Chavez Santiago and hear about how they are made in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico. Please Share!
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We would appreciate it if you would SHARE on Social Media and send on to your friends. I have over 100 garments and 30 pieces of jewelry to sell in addition to 22 fabulous Galeria Fe y Lola tapestry rugs and Montaño Family handbags.
We will be at Echoview Fiber Mill, April 12, 4-8 pm — Weaverville, NC, presented by Echoview and Local Cloth!
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INDIO owner Wendy Sease recently traveled with me to Chiapas. She bought up beautiful treasures for her shop. I’ve just returned to my apartment in Durham, North Carolina, for a couple of months with three suitcases filled with textiles and jewelry. We decided to collaborate.
YOU ARE INVITED. Bring a friend.
Plus, the BIG news is that my godson, twenty-three year old Omar Chavez Santiago, a recent industrial engineering university graduate, just received his FIRST 10-year visa to visit the USA. This is a really big deal, since the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City is pretty thrifty in giving visas.
Omar plans to talk about the 100% natural dyes used to color the pure churro sheep wool his family at Galeria Fe y Lola uses in the rugs they weave and give demonstrations. He will have beautiful tapestry rugs for sale, too. They come in all sizes.
Where is INDIO? Historic Brightleaf Square, Downtown Durham
Brick and mortar sales are hard for people who live far away. I know that. Look for a few pieces I’ll be offering online in the next few weeks, too.
Posted in Chiapas, Clothing Design, Folk Art, Jewelry, Teotitlan del Valle, Textiles, Tapestries & Weaving
Tagged Durham, Galeria Fe y Lola, INDIO, Mexico, North Carolina, sale, trunk show
This is a show and sale for 10 pieces of Kandart sterling silver jewelry made in Oaxaca, Mexico, by French silversmith Brigitte Huet and her husband Ivan Campant.
Bracelet, slide clasp, 7″ long x 2″ wide. $665 USD plus shipping + insurance
The one-of-a-kind pieces are the last remaining for sale from the Oaxaca collection.
26″ pendant, $595 USD plus shipping + insurance
Many of them were made 15 and 20 years ago and put away as keepsakes that Brigitte and Ivan have now decided to sell. This may be your last opportunity to buy these unique collector pieces.
If you want something, please choose quickly, then contact me by email and include your mailing address with ZIP Code. I will send you a PayPal invoice for the piece plus shipping and insurance at the sale value.
Brigitte and Ivan thank you and send best wishes.
They left Oaxaca in early 2014 to return to southern France. They are living in a small village near Toulouse, creating new wax carved designs that will be made in limited editions with silver casting as soon as they are able to move to a house that will accommodate a working studio. Meanwhile, Brigitte continues to develop new ideas, most recently implemented in wood sculpture, too.
Eagle bracelet, small is 6-1/2″ x 2″, $550. Longer is 7-5/8″ x 2″, $600.
Bracelet, 6-7/8″ long x 1″ wide, $445.
17″ long necklace, 1/4-1/2″ wide, $295 USD
necklace, $335, 16″ long
Eagle pendant, 3-1/2″long x 1-5/8″ wide, $245.
Pendant, 2-3/4″ long x 1-5/8″ wide, $275.
Lady Pendant, 3-1/4″ long x 2-1/4″ wide, $300.
How to order: First send me an email.
P.S. I have no earrings or rings from Brigitte to offer for sale at this time.
Norma contributes personal essay, How Oaxaca Became Home
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North Carolina Hosts Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Weaver with Two Trunk Shows
Omar Chavez Santiago is a fifth generation weaver from Teotitlan del Valle who works in natural dyes. His family operates Galeria Fe y Lola in Oaxaca city. I asked my Congressman G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) to alert the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City that Omar was coming on March 1, 2018, for his visa interview. Few are successful. Omar received a 10-year visitor visa. He is here and we are excited.
Omar Chavez Santiago explains natural dyes in Oaxaca, Mexico
Wendy Sease, owner of INDIO Durham, will host Omar this weekend for a Mexico Art & Textile Trunk Show. Thank you, Wendy. Please come!
FIRST TRUNK SHOW — INDIO DURHAM
SECOND TRUNK SHOW — ECHOVIEW FIBER MILL, WEAVERVILLE
Thanks to Judi Jetson from Local Cloth and Grace Casey-Gouin from Echoview Fiber Mill, for hosting us in the Asheville area. Please let your NC mountain friends know!
Preparing the cochineal dye bath, Teotitlan del Valle
Getting the most intense red possible! Straining the bugs.
Bamboo bobbins with natural dyed wool, ready to weave
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