Houndstooth
80cm x 150cm
Weaver: Jacinto
The first time I saw this pattern, I could see bats. With some research I learnt that the oldest occurrence of this pattern is in the Gerum cloak found in a Swedish peat bog dating between 300 to 100 years BC. The pattern became signature pattern of tweeds from the Scottish Lowlands and somehow made it to my village when industrial fabrics became widely available. Traditional Zapotec woman wear industrially manufactured wool wraps as a skirt for day to day wear and reserve the hand woven wraps for ceremonial occasions. This pattern represents the thread that links two very distant cultures in fashion and spirit’
Samuel Bautista Lazo, Dixza Rugs Organic Farm
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DIXZA RUGS ORGANIC FARM
The ancient way of weaving rugs in Teotitlan Del Valle, Oaxaca, is with a deep respect of the natural and spiritual world, with natural dyes and fibres, powered by muscle and firewood from renewable resources.
In this village is Dixza Rugs Organic Farm, home to an indigenous Benizaa family: Mario Bautista Martínez and Leonar Lazo González and their two sons Samuel Bautista Lazo and Celestino Bautista Lazo. The family are keeping the millenary weaving tradition alive, farming the land of their ancestors in a sustainable way and sharing the skills and knowledge of their culture through demonstrations and workshops.
‘When you buy one of our rugs, you are not just buying an object; you are bringing a piece of Zapotec woven tradition to your home. We share with you 10,000 years of know how, ancient stories and teachings that our ancestors have passed down from generation to generation in our oral tradition and weaving heritage’
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