One Day Tours - Hands on Silk

Tuesday 17 Dec 2024 -Tuesday 14 Jan. 2025 -Tuesday 11 Feb. 2025-Limit 10 participants. MX$1500/person This is not an OLL tourMeet in front of OLL for a 9 am departure and travel to Teotilán del Valle, a nearby Zapotec village famous for its weavers. At location of Arteseda Miguel, Rina, Aurora, and Reynaldo will receive you and share their compound where they grow their mulberry trees, raise the silk worms , harvest the silk fiber and transform it into cloth by spinning and weaving.
First you climb up to mulberry grove to see how the trees are planted and tended and collect leaves for the silkworms.
You will feed the criollo silk worms and see all the stages of their growth: eggs, hatchlings, 1st instar, 4th instar worms, worms spinning their cocoons, completed cocoons and moths(if there are any) which mate and lay eggs. You will harvest a few cocoons for your own silk fiber.
Included is a traditional lunch at a nearby home.
Your harvested cocoons have the pupa inside and are held together and hardened with gum. To have just fiber you must clean the outside of the cocoon, boil it to remove the gum and then discard the pupa inside. The remaining fiber can now be stretched into a flat hankie . The silk fiber can be spun into tread with a local traditional supported spindle. After making your silk yarn you will see a demonstration of weaving with this silk.

Arteseda does have a shop on the premises in Teotilán del Valle and a booth a the Pochote market on Calle Colon, Centro in Oaxaca de Juárez on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
For questions contact Karren Brito at (52)951 701 0961 or WhatsApp
To register for the tour contact Pablo Gonzáles Marsch at
(52) 951 134 7391 or WhatsApp