“They are ‘miracle hands that turn necessities and fears into spirit, popular-artworks originated from the biodiversity that conforms its natural habitat.’

Mexican’s textile art owns centuries of history and creativity along the country. Thanks to it and to a wide range of traditions, customs, miscegenation and cosmogonies, Mexico is recognised as one of the main countries possessing a beautiful artistic production in the textile world.
Textile artists, weavers, embroiderers inhabit every corner of the country, which have not just taken care of immortalise the techniques and symbolisms of our ancestors in their traditional clothes, but to create real masterpieces. In words from Mexico City’s Popular Art Museum they are ‘miracle hands that turn necessities and fears into spirit, popular-artworks originated from the biodiversity that conforms its natural habitat’.” -María José Castañeda, 16th July.

Taken fragment from: https://masdemx.com/