Zapotec Weavers of Teotitlán

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The Spanish introduced wool yarns and the fixed-frame pedal loom of a kind still in use nowadays. The Mexican Revolution saw a party of indigenous crafts, and the hole of the Pan-American Highway in 1948 brought Teotitlán’s weavers to the craft markets of Oaxaca. American importers within the 1970s infused textile production with new energy, leading to nowadays’s dizzying number of works that range from modernist motifs to Navajo geometrics to ancient and historical patterns reprised in vivid and colorful latest designs. Zapotec weavers express their sense of well-being and belonging in what they weave, and the tapestries and rugs which might be currently produced reconcile ancient history with the techniques of the twenty-first-century marketplace.

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