About Teotitlán Wool Rug
Teotitlán del Valle weaves tapestry rugs on Spanish treadle looms over a Zapotec base some 2,500 years old. The ground is undyed handspun churro fleece — white, cream, tan, grey, brown, black, taken straight off the sheep and used raw.
Across it runs the greca, the stepped fret lifted from the carved stone panels at Mitla, 29 km away. Two dyes carry the colour: cochineal farmed on nopal cactus, and coastal indigo. Right angles only. The loom cannot make a curve.
- Origin
- Teotitlán del Valle, Valles Centrales, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Era
- pre-1900 (Zapotec weaving from c. 500 BCE; Spanish treadle loom from the 16th century; current natural-dye revival ~1980s–present)
- Key figures
- Familia Mendoza · Familia Ruiz · Familia Montaño · Casa Santiago
- Movements
- Zapotec tapestry weaving · Mitla stone-mosaic geometry · Oaxacan natural-dye tradition
Teotitlán Wool Rug design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
BitterHeadings
Noto SansBody
Barlow CondensedMono
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