LIVING LEGEND Taller Netzahualcoyotl: Sustainability Rooted in Pre-Hispanic Mexico
Tucked into the village of Contla de Juan Cuamatzi, just twenty minutes beyond the central Mexican city of Tlaxcala (tlas-kah-lah), is an extraordinary textile workshop. Their roots go deep into Mexico’s cultural, social and political history. Here, they speak Nahuatl, language of the Aztecs, and the Netzahualcoyotl family trace their roots to the famed pre-Hispanic sage and poet-king from Lake Texcoco whose sphere of influence extended beyond the capital city. The workshop is committed to reviving, preserving, and protecting the cultural identity of indigenous clothing that can be traced to this era and earlier.
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