Chimayo weaver keeps tradition alive – New Mexico
Tagged: Mexico, New Mexico, parentsPosted on: August 23rd, 2007“As a boy in a tiny village long known for its weaving, Irvin Trujillo remembers being surrounded by the traditional art – and sometimes nearly smothered by it.
He and his cousins would spend cold winter nights at the little adobe house of their grandmother huddled on a mattress on the floor. His aunt would head to a crib in the back room stacked full of heavy, hand-spun ““frazadas’’ made by his grandparents, he recalls.”
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