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Zapotec Weaving Demonstration

A Taste of Oaxaca in Taos, New Mexico:
Master Zapotec Weaver Florentino Gutierrez
Gives Weaving Demonstration

Starr Interiors will host a special event in their courtyard to coincide with the Taos Wool Festival. Noted Master Zapotec Weaver, Florentino Gutierrez, will be giving a weaving demonstration showing the traditional method of the centuries old Zapotec Indian flat weaving technique on a double harness loom.

Saturday and Sunday, October 3rd and 4th, 2009


Susanna Starr and Florentino's wife, Eloisa


Hugo, Florentino's cousin weaving

Florentino weaving
Hugo weaving
Florentino
—all photos this page by John Lamkin ©

Day of the Dead bread
Sugar Skulls
Day of the Dead bread
Images from
the Day of the Dead
in the village

click to enlarge

—photos by
John Lamkin

Women shopping on the
Day of the Dead
Flower arrangement for
the Day of the Dead