Something Beautiful Just for Cajola

As you know, we have been trying to develop our local market here in Cajola. We have created a new design for our traditional huipiles. Our huipiles are something like blouses, though they are unstructured. Here we are showing you the new fabric. Actually, there are two, one is just simple magenta and black vertical stripes, the other is more complex, using 4 treadles and a weft in yellow. We will be presenting them at our local market for the first time on Sunday.

New Weave New Colors New Shawl!

Here is a new shawl for fall in our new weave which we named "Ocho" (which means "8" in Spanish). This weave came out of our experiments with our basic threading which has also given us our diamond weave, "Delfina" weave, and our herringbone. As you know, we are learning to do new threadings and new designs, so we will show some of them off next week! Here we combined a rich purple with a slate green color -- isn't it a rich combination?!

Our New Tablecloth Fabric

Our inspiration for this fabric came from right here in Cajola, where these colors are popular for our “mantels” (table runners). But we wove the stripes in a wide cloth to make tablecloths to sell in the US. We wove the stripes in the traditional brown, green and red stripes, and also have woven a companion fabric with cobalt instead of the red. We are selling the fabric by the yard at our Sunday market with some success already!