Just added: One-Day Indigo Dye Workshop click link for details Oaxaca Natural Dye Workshops: Choose 1, 2 or 3 Days Set your own dates. Ask us for more information about these experiences, customized scheduling, and prices. We offer textile experiences in our studio where we weave and work only in natural dyes.You can see the process during our textile tours, dye workshops or customized weaving experiences. Hands-on Dye Workshops + Textile Experiences Tell us how we can put a program together for you! Send an email PRESSĭye Workshops All Year. Send us your available dates.ĭesigners, retailers, wholesalers, universities and other organizations come to us to develop customized itineraries, study abroad programs, meetings and conferences. Programs can be scheduled to meet your travel plans. Groups are limited in size for the most personal experience. We give you access to where people live and work. They are off-the-beaten path, internationally recognized. Study Tours + Study Abroad are personally curated and introduce you to Mexico's greatest artisans. We have over 30 years of university program development experience. Norma Schafer and Oaxaca Cultural Navigator LLC has offered programs in Mexico since 2006. When over-dyed with indigo, it is the color of the corn leaves in the photo above. It makes a beautiful yellow dye on wool and silk. Weavers in Teotitlan del Valle who work with natural dyes collect cempasuchitl this time of year and hang it to dry.
During this 24-hour period, they will receive visitors and make visits to family and friends with altar gifts of chocolate, Pan de Muertos, beer and mezcal to honor family and loved ones. On November 2 they will return to the cemetery to help guide the spirits’ return to the underworld after the 3 p.m. Here in Teotitlan del Valle people will welcome their deceased into their homes on November 1 with a meal of chicken tamales with yellow mole. In my world, I see it as ecumenical and non-denominational. This is a personal and community tribute to the continuity of life each step of the way. My experience in building this altar is to reaffirm that Day of the Dead is for anyone who wants to create something very tangible and joyful to remember a loved one. Some of the locals are not happy that the occasion is moving away from the traditional celebration toward the commercial with spiders, bats and Jack O’Lanterns. It isn’t Halloween here, said my friend Danny Hernandez. Maybe I’ll put a marigold arch over the front doorway.ĭay of the Dead is a pre-Hispanic tradition that blends into All Saints and All Souls Days which some also mistakenly refer to in the U.S.A. Lupe says I need to add peanuts even though I have pecans. The aroma also helps guide the spirits home. I’ve already prepared the copal incense burner. I will wait to get fresh marigolds for November 1. The palm fronds used for arches that allow the dead to enter earth from the underworld won’t be available until later this week. So here it is along with my artisanal mezcal collection in garafones (hand-blown bottles). I’m sure in his lifetime he had a Victoria when we went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant. Our parents weren’t drinkers, but on occasion our dad would enjoy a beer. It has the favorite food and beverages that the deceased liked. It is somewhat typical of Teotitlan del Valle altars. He was the son of immigrants and knew the importance of a fair wage and decent working conditions. Even so, he chose to stick to his principles. Our family was still young and with three children. I remember our mom was scared because there would be no income until he went back to work. He went out on strike once to protest a wage cut. Our dad was a teacher in the Los Angeles City School District for over thirty years. It is a meaningful experience to make a memory altar to honor a loved one who is no longer here. As I duplicated the photo, cut foam board and secured it to the photo, I had a sense of well-being, connection and loving memory. Front and center is a photo of our dad who passed in 1997. I started to gather and build my altar yesterday. Lupe also said that the bees make a deep yellow honey from the wild marigolds this time of year and this can be special addition to the altar. The dead like color, she says, and the strong scent of the marigolds. That’s why they are a prominent part of altars. My friend Guadalupe was at the casita yesterday and she explained that the intense yellow color of the wild marigold signals the dead to return to earth for Dia de los Muertos. It’s less than a week before Day of the Dead here in Oaxaca. The campo (countryside) is a blanket of tiny yellow flowers called cempasuchitl or wild marigolds that come up in southern Mexico this time of year.
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