Napa St. in Sonoma Sonoma Valley residents will have an opportunity to immerse themselves in the Zapotec rug weaving tradition this month when two members of a women’s cooperative in Oaxaca ...

You’ve probably seen the source of Teotitlán’s success— the Zapotec wool rug—even if you didn’t recognize it as such. Sometimes called Oaxacan rugs, or confused with Navajo varieties ...

Francisco uses them to create natural dyes for the intricate, award-winning wool tapestries and rugs he and his wife ... continued to weave the traditional Zapotec designs.

Oaxaca, located in Southern Mexico, is famous for its craft villages where artisans specialize in hand-made textiles ...

Twenty years later, when Mario Chávez Gutiérrez, 40, began weaving his first rug at the age of 8, his father, Juan, a master weaver in the Zapotec village of Teotitlán del Valle, pointed him ...

A hidden "entrance to the underworld" built by the ancient Zapotec culture has been discovered beneath a Catholic church in southern Mexico, according to a team of researchers using cutting-edge ...

Farrelly and Gutiérrez Lorenzo, a Zapotec speaker and community member, are colleagues in the Department of Linguistics at CU Boulder. They joined forces to develop a Global Seminar based in Teotitlán ...