Author: Mendoza Cerón, Isaías
Title: In Tequil de Morrales : Working with Maguey
Description: Copenhagen, Reitzels, 1993. orig. wrappers. 23x16cm, 135 pp. Textual drawings.. Some rubbing. VG. ¶ Bilingual English / Nahuatl text on facing pages. Ethnographic oral history of Mexican agave products hand weaving industry. Contents: The maguey field; We cut the maguey; We heat the leaves; We pound, perforate, and split the leaves; We carry the ixtle to the Almolonga; We scrape the ixtle; We twine together the fibers and we spin the thread; We set up the warp; We knot the selvedge and we fasten the warp to the warp rod; We tie on the heddle; The weft; The weave; We finish the weaving; We hang up the morral; We make a dozne; We make braids; We sew and sell the morral; They paint the morral; Our grandfathers made sacks.

Keywords: Mexican Hand Weaving, Coatepec Costales, Agave Products, Mexico, Anthropology, Ethnology, Sociology, Ethnography, Oral History