MesoAmerican Stories

For centuries, and likely for thousands of years, indigenous weaving communities in Oaxaca, Mexico have encoded their worldview into cloth.  Every thread, dye, and motif reflects a way of living rooted in balance with nature, communal responsibility, and ancestral knowledge passed from and to hand across generations. This one-hour documentary film follows Mixteca communities in Oaxaca’s Costa Chica, Pinotepa Don Luis, and the nearby village of Pinotepa Nacional, as well as an Amuzgo weaver from San Pedro Amuzgos.  Women weavers, and now a few men weavers and elder dyers maintain practices that have survived through time, even amid modernization, environmental pressures, and societal change.

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