Stepping into the halls of the old Presidential residence in Mexico City, Mexico this month was like walking into a kaleidoscope, with thousands of pieces of multicoloured embroidery covering the ...
What?! You didn’t know there was a such a thing as Mexican embroidery thread?! Okay, neither did we — ’til our friend Kathy “Crafty Chica” Cano-Murillo let slip that Mario Ramos is her favorite local ...
Mexican social media exploded in November at the news of the apparent appropriation of a traditional textile design from Oaxaca, México, by a French designer and fashion company. The uproar appeared ...
Mérida, Yucatán.- Artisans from 12 municipalities presented the Maya Yucatecan Embroidery Safeguard Plan, developed by themselves with the technical support of UNESCO, the auspices of the Banorte ...
Mexico's Minister of Culture called out fashion brand Carolina Herrera for appropriating embroidery techniques and patterns specific to Mexican indigenous communities. The design of a clothing line ...
A group of women have so far embroidered almost 200 patches of names and aim to embroider all the names of women killed by femicide in Morelos since 2015 It started with the killing of 25-year-old ...
If Mexico’s Tulum and Oaxaca rank high on your list of favorite vacation spots, Cristina Lynch’s upbringing will sound particularly dreamy. Growing up, her Dallas home was filled with several decades’ ...