Passionate about artisanal textile technologies and techniques. Growing up between Oaxaca and other cities, she has always been a weaver of people and worlds. Currently developing UNE, which explores the relationship between health and textiles.

Daniel is the designer of our orchad at La Casa de la Yaka, where we focous on growing textile fibers, plant dyes and plant medicine.

A passionate cook who has dove into organic farming for the past years. His expertise lies in soil regeneration via bio-intensive agricultural methods. He moved to Oaxaca with his brother to a bare land that shortly transformed into a diverse little forest-farm where they closed-loop elements for Ruta Segura, his personal project.

Seamstress for over 55 years.

Margarita and Adriana started to create clothing together ever since Adri was a little child. She most probably made her very first dress ever.

Adriana’s Oaxacan grandmother & mother have always been passionate about bringing designs to life, and have worked alongside Margarita for the past 50 years.

Her presence and abilities on UNE are essential for its creation.

From seed to fabric.

A non-profit textile project that reside in a Sierra Sur village, where women spin organic cotton on a Charkha.

After 10+ years of this initiative, over 350 Zapotec artisans are involved.

They collaborate with farmers on the Coast of Oaxaca who integrate organic cotton into their traditional Milpa. This polycrop mesoamerican agricultural system is based on the reciprocity between all elements involved, favoring soil health, resilience and bio-diversity.

Traditional zapotec healer, weaver, dyer and farmer.

Adriana met Doña Aurora in the quest to connect with allies for Texiendo Tierra.

In this image, Doña Aurora is surrounded by the Indigo she has been planting for the last 20 years. This species known as “The King of natural dyes” grows in humid environments near the Coast of Oaxaca, but Doña Aurora managed to adapt the seeds to thrive under the conditions of the Central Valleys in Teotitlan del Valle.

Now she has a medicinal and dyer garden at her home where she offers weavings and plant healing baths.

She is on of the master dyers that colors the threads and weavings for UNE.

Experimental art weaving workshop.

No coincidences exist. Adriana was searching to weave a very special thread that many before were not able to. When she gave up, by pure serendipity she crossed paths with the weavers her grandmother used to work when she was younger working as a decorator. She talked to Doña Lupita about the “impossible thread” and suggested reaching out to her son Alfredo Orozco — an expert on experimenting with rare fibers and threads on the creation of handmade canvas.

Many fabrics of UNE come from his workshop and looms.

Silk producer: grower, spinner, dyer, weaver — Sierra Norte.

Fiber explorer, and multidisciplinary creator — Central Valleys.

Ixtle Agave fiber spinner and weaver, Ixtle — Sierra Norte.

Embroiderer and cooker — Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.

Silk producer: grower, spinner, dyer, weaver — Sierra Norte.

Embroiderer and cooker — Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.

Embroiderer of weaved stitches — Central Valleys of Oaxacca.

Natural dyer, spinner and pedal loom weaver — Central Valleys.

Filmmaker and backstraploom weaver — Istmo de Tehuantepec.

Beeswax candle maker — Central Valleys of Oaxaca.

Local seamstress and pattern maker — Central Valleys.

Backstrap loom weaver — Central Valleys of Oaxaca.