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Añil indigo

Documented in the archive in connection with Zapotec Pedal-Loom Weaving (Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico).

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Classification
Material
Origin / Scope
Mexico
Connected Rooms
1 Tradition
Bibliography
1 Source

Archival note & context

Añil indigo is attested in the primary archival record for Zapotec Pedal-Loom Weaving in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico.

In the Zapotec valley town of Teotitlán del Valle, family workshops card Sierra Juárez churro wool by hand and dye skeins in earthen vats of añil indigo and grana cochineal harvested from nopal cacti.

Recorded in the archive with primary workshop documentation; awaiting a formal dated census to assign a four-lamp condition mark.

Associated traditions

1

Sources

1

What’s on this page is sourced from the citation below.

SourcePublisherLicence
Zapotec Pedal-Loom Weaving — Folkroom Primary Archive Dossier (Mexico)National InventoryCC BY-SA 4.0
"Añil indigo." Folkroom Archive (Materials), https://folkroom.org/materials/anil-indigo · CC BY-SA 4.0.