Best Textile Tour Destinations and Weaving Region Travel
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Textile Tour Destinations and Weaving Region Travel I spent four days at a backstrap-loom weaving workshop in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2019, learning the basic Zapotec weaving techniques that local women have practiced continuously for over 2,500 years. By day two I'd accepted that "learning to weave" in four days was naive - I produced perhaps 6 inches of imperfect cloth in 16 hours of work, while my teacher produced about 2 inches of impossibly fine cloth in the same time. What I actually learned was the depth of skill embedded in textiles I'd previously treated as decorative objects. By day four I was buying rugs from Teotitlán weavers with completely different appreciation than I would have brought before the workshop. The world's great textile destinations preserve traditions that mass production has nearly eliminated globally. Oaxaca's Zapotec weaving. India's regional trad...