Toshkatl: the carrier of the Universe bohostyle

Toshkatl: the carrier of the Universe bohostyleSize: 130x200cm Weaver: Juan Lazo Gutierrez Price: 910 USD Materials and methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with colorfast aniline dyes using an exhaustive method. Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed. Design, patterns and symbols: the cross represent the union of heaven and the underworld intersected by the earth plane. On the 16th of May in valley of Mexico city,

This rug is about the color blue

This is the pattern we call "Beal guie'a" the flowered serpent

The color red represents the blood of the earth necessary for life while the blue represents the cosmic elements needed for life on earth to be sustained

if we don't stop emiting carbon into the atmoaphere and the warming continues

Doña Soledad's husband

The Diamon is symetrical in four directions

there are specific days to eat meat

the strike of lightning is believed to start the sprouting of many seeds and a type of pine mushroom that is very tasty

our grandparents gave their lives so that we could retain our autonomy and ancestral lands

Weaver: Juan Lazo Gutierrez

her people still gather and process acorns in the ancestral ways

this required that everyone would have been well versed in the cosmological stories and teachings