Oaxaca Textiles: Innovations and Revivals

Arianne’s talk will focus on indigenous weaving practices as well as innovations and revivals in textile production in Oaxaca. She will draw from her own personal experience, working and collaborating with weavers in rural communities in Southern Mexico since 2008, to highlight some of the most important issues regarding the value of handwoven textiles in the region. She will be primarily focusing her talk on textiles woven from native, homegrown cotton varieties which are naturally colored and those woven from yarn or thread dyed with locally sourced plants and insects.