{"id":40300,"date":"2020-03-16T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=40300"},"modified":"2020-03-15T21:14:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T03:14:42","slug":"museo-textil-de-oaxaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/museo-textil-de-oaxaca\/","title":{"rendered":"Museo Textil de Oaxaca"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Post 25 of 189. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

My next, and final, stop this morning was the Oaxaca Textile Museum.<\/p>\n

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There, I learned about the link between the word textile and the word, well, text, both of which are very similar in many languages. A lot of culture is conveyed through textiles and things like samplers (embroidered pieces with the alphabet) are a popular way to blend art with language.<\/p>\n

I loved this map of most of North America:<\/p>\n

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The amount of detail on this Mountie was amazing — every important detail of his outfit is there!<\/p>\n

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A sampler. I love the Spanish and French words for such an art form, abecedario\/ab\u00e9c\u00e9daire, using the first four letters of the alphabet to convey what the item is.<\/p>\n

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This was made by a 10-year-old English girl in 1829!<\/p>\n

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This was an interesting social project. “What was the last time you said something that put a knot in your throat? We invite you to share your feelings through thread, the needle, or paint.” There were lots of embroidered pieces from visitors attached to the sign.<\/p>\n

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The clothing of light and mirrors exhibit was interesting.<\/p>\n

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This piece was stunning!<\/p>\n

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I enjoyed a display showing all the different textiles and clothing styles of “the land of clouds” — Oaxaca.<\/p>\n

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The museum shop was full of treasures that were too expensive for me. Much later in the day, after going home to work and finish some blog posts, I set out again for La Casa de las Artesan\u00edas to get another item on my shopping list (I really did have a list!). I’d spotted it when I arrived but had decided to wait in case I saw something more perfect. But this was the best I found:<\/p>\n

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It’s a table cloth. I love the pink and yellow, but was disappointed that most of it is actually cream. But I haven’t been able to find another one in this super heavy cotton in colours I even remotely like, so this is it. 550 pesos felt like a bargain for such quality, and I bought it from the lady who made it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Post 25 of 189. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr!) My next, and final, stop this morning was the Oaxaca Textile Museum. There, I learned about the link between the word textile and the word, well, text, both of which are very similar in many languages. A lot of culture is conveyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40320,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40300\/revisions\/40320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}