Today I'm going to talk about someone that I admire:
Patricia Hidalgo and Maria Teresa Maradiaga.
These women are weavers of burlap. They invented a new way how to burlap in dictatorship, with few materials: burlap sacks, wool, and patchwork of cloth, because they were very poor.
They are from Lo Hermida, a territory whos people organized to land grab and bulding their houses. In thoses years -1973- were a territory with a lot of problems. One was unemployment, so Patricia and Maria Terersa started to weavering, with the materials that were in their houses.
In the beggining it was innocent weavers, only landscapes, but a little time after they began to represent problems and deficiencies of dictatorship, like the repression or disappearances of people.
Also they represent the ways that the people organizated in the land grab to survive, like common pot. Representated daily life on land grab.
When the tissues were ready , they sold it to "vicaria de la solidaridad" and they exported it , so the message of what was happened on Chile arrived to others parts of the world, denouncing the dictatorship. When the militars realized this, burned the tissues. But Patricia and Maria Teresa kept doing
In torture centers, womens did arpilleras too, and others types of wool art, they were put messages hidden inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNKeLhTyiWQ
I met them when I was on my last year of school, I went to a workshop of burlap in Lo Hermida, in there they told me the story.
Now I'm going again to the burlap workshop, with the same teachers. We are doing a very big burlap of 4th sector of Lo Hermida and others arpilleras smaller.
On Saturday 17th of June we are going to expose our arpilleras on "Plaza Salvador Allende" on Lo Hermida. Everyone are invited!!!
See you next week
Patricia Hidalgo and Maria Teresa Maradiaga.
These women are weavers of burlap. They invented a new way how to burlap in dictatorship, with few materials: burlap sacks, wool, and patchwork of cloth, because they were very poor.
They are from Lo Hermida, a territory whos people organized to land grab and bulding their houses. In thoses years -1973- were a territory with a lot of problems. One was unemployment, so Patricia and Maria Terersa started to weavering, with the materials that were in their houses.
In the beggining it was innocent weavers, only landscapes, but a little time after they began to represent problems and deficiencies of dictatorship, like the repression or disappearances of people.
Also they represent the ways that the people organizated in the land grab to survive, like common pot. Representated daily life on land grab.
When the tissues were ready , they sold it to "vicaria de la solidaridad" and they exported it , so the message of what was happened on Chile arrived to others parts of the world, denouncing the dictatorship. When the militars realized this, burned the tissues. But Patricia and Maria Teresa kept doing
In torture centers, womens did arpilleras too, and others types of wool art, they were put messages hidden inside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNKeLhTyiWQ
I met them when I was on my last year of school, I went to a workshop of burlap in Lo Hermida, in there they told me the story.
Now I'm going again to the burlap workshop, with the same teachers. We are doing a very big burlap of 4th sector of Lo Hermida and others arpilleras smaller.
On Saturday 17th of June we are going to expose our arpilleras on "Plaza Salvador Allende" on Lo Hermida. Everyone are invited!!!
See you next week
I knew nothing about them, how interesting that despite what the military did you continue to knit.
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