Sew Crafty at Hip Stitch
TUCKED AWAY IN Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights, Hip Stitch celebrates New Mexico’s landscapes and icons, from hot-air-balloon-dotted skies to chile ristras. Sunlight pours through tall windows…
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Tag: Textiles
Emily Trujillo’s Modern Take on Weaving
AT 31 YEARS OLD, Emily Trujillo is the heir apparent to a textile legacy that began eight generations ago, when Mexico-born Diego Trujillo settled in the village of Chimayó in the mid-1600s. Over the…
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Cozy Up to Comfort at Tierra Wools
WALKING ONTO Tierra Wools’s rustic farmhouse porch is like entering an open-air art gallery. Handwoven Southwestern rugs hang from the eaves, their vibrant colors and patterns contrasting against wood…
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Good Press
Above: Inside the Kei and Molly Textiles Albuquerque shop. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. “We ourselves identify as immigrants,” says Kei Tsuzuki, co-founder of Kei & Molly Textiles, in Albuquerque…
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A Guide to Santa Fe Art
THE FIRST TIME I STEPPED into Art House, one of the many galleries in Santa Fe’s famed Canyon Road art district, I lost my bearings. Crossing the threshold of a historic adobe home, I entered a dim…
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Get More Fiber
Above: Weaving on a vertical loom goes back at least 400 year in New Mexico. Photograph Courtesy of New Mexico Fiber Crawl. Some of my most treasured possessions are fiber—like the pair of little…
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The Museum That's Saving a Community
Above: Visitors dance at the Chimayó Museum's fiesta. Photographs by Don J. Usner. MARTA TRUJILLO MARTINEZ LABORS to lift herself up from her folding chair in the shade of a giant cottonwood along…
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