Chancay dolls! Chancay dolls are named after the Chancay culture of Peru AD 1000 – 1476
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Hillary Steel on the Endangered Mexican Rebozo
REBOZOS REBOZOS REBOZOS REBOZOS
On February 9, 2013,
Hillary Steel presented a Rug and Textile Appreciation Morning program on the Mexican Rebozo, a traditional Mexican shawl, woven in warp faced, resist-dye ikat, that is in danger of disappearing.
Hillary Steel is a handweaver. Her work has been featured locally in solo exhibitions at Glenview Mansion Art Gallery, Rockville, Maryland (2011, 2002, 1999) and in numerous group exhibitions in such venues as the Blackrock Center for the Arts ( 2013), Artists’ Museum, Washington, D.C. (2003), and Snyderman/Works Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 2000. Her work is also held by several public collections including that of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. and in our embassies abroad through the US State Departments “Art in Embassies Program”.
Hillary is involved with cultural preservation efforts with regard to Mexican rebozo weaving, the subject of her presentation here. More of Hillary’s work can be seen on her…
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Oaxaca… weaving!
Weaving and Oaxaca
We joined a tour from the hostel today with the main aim of visiting Hierve El Agua (more on which to come) but ended up on a bit of a school trip to all sorts of interesting places.
Stop one was the village of El Tule, home to Arbol del Tule, the biggest tree in the world – in terms of circumference, anyway. Who knew! It’s about 60m all round, 42m high and approximately 2,000 years old. Also; impossible to photograph.
Next we trundled along to Teotitlan del Valle, a weaving village where you traditionally start in the family trade at the grand old age of six. It’s not a sweatshop set-up though, more family groups working from courtyards their homes to preserve an ancient skill – the place we stopped at, Artesena Zapoteca, certainly seemed to be a happy and profitable set-up anyway.
We had a quick masterclass…
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Traje Tipico
So beautiful! Just looking at this Mayan traje makes me feel happy!
Aside from the article below, here are a couple of more interesting links: A Guatemalan woman weaves a textile on a backstrap loom + Maya Kotan collaborates with women in Mexico and Guatemala that create beautiful textiles using the backstrap loom, an ancient Mayan tradition.
Weaving in Chiapas + TRAJE EN GUATEMALA + Chiapas’ diversity
A Mayan woman, dressed in her traditional, hand-woven traje, looks on from afar as we demonstrate how to use our rocket stove at a SolCom sales campaign in Panajachel.
Mexico: The Hunt for the Perfect Huipil Begins
Huipiles and San Cristobal…
The Narrative Within 