Textiles on a Full day Tour from Oaxaca

The Zapotec comunity of Teotitlán invites you to come and learn about ancestral knowledge about crafts making and expressions, all activities are done with the knowledge that have been passed on for many generation; involving activities as could be carding, weaving, dyeing, candle decorating or feeding silk worms. Each workshop will explain the process of making each craft where the whole family is involved in different ways to help to get workshops running, the history of each artist will make you understand the life and connection between family and the spirits of Zapotec ancestors. The traditions of community involves different activities throughout the year with family, work and Community ruled under USOS Y COSTUMBRES, weaving textiles and candle making in the community goes back for hundreds of years, using natural fibers as cotton, wool and silk and also using natural bees wax for spiritual decorated candles made for all of our spiritual events. Hundreds of years of knowledge waiting to be shared.