Around lunch on our first day in Oaxaca we visited a weaving shop in Teotitlan. What a wondrful experience.
This is one of the weavers who told us about every aspect of the shop from getting the wool from sheep, the different colors of sheep’s wool, cleaning the wool, spinning the wool and coloring the wool.
Here she is showing us some raw wool with wool that has been recently dyed drying on the line.
Recently dyed wool that is drying.
A great variety of dyed wool that is redy for weaving.
A variety of wool with the dying agents in the large bowls.
The Mike’s and Martha talking to the weaver about the wool.
The great variety of weaving that was available for purchase.
Back in the field tomorrow.
Michael's Place 
Lovely rug! I want one.
By the way, Spanish is a lot like French (both Romance languages) and I saw the word “cochinilla” in the first photo. Must be the name of the shop? That made me think of “coccinelle”, which is ladybug. But I looked it up and that word in Spanish means “wood louse”, which they use as a dye. Still…
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Yes, cochinilla is the insect that they use for some of the purple dyes. I believe that they are an insect that infests certain Opuntia cactus plants. Even more interesting, in my opinion was how they use indigo plants to make blue dyes.
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They do beautiful work! I’m just starting to learn spinning and weaving. Their tapestries are inspiring!
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