Reepi shchaá: the flow of the spirit

$ 6,500.00

Size: 80x150cm; 2.6x5ft

Weaver: Herlinda Ruiz Bazan

Materials ans methods: criollo sheep wool hand dyed with colorfast aniline dyes using an exhaustive method. Handwoven on a Zapotec style loom of the 16th century adapted from European styles. Woven using a 7 threads per inch reed.

Customize the fringe: twisted like cordage for a traditional look or tuck it in for a cleaner look and easier vacuuming (allow 2 to 3 days).

Patterns and symbols: this design pattern represents the energy fields of life. Our ancestors understood that the reality is more than we can perceive with our senses, they discovered that we have an energy field around our physical body similar to the magnetic field of the earth described by modern day science. Our ancestors spoke about energy lines that weave together all living beings on earth, they knew how to read and understand those subtle energy flows that connect us to the spirit world.

When one gets the shivers not for cold physical reasons but due to a psycological reason, something called an easthetic shiver, we are using those subtle ways of perceiving, this is what we call Repi Scha'à which translates as energy rise (as in electricity). One could feel aesthetic shivers when one deeply agrees with someone, when one realises and feels aligned with a collective goal, during ritual, while listening to music or when watching a film. Before street lighting was deployed in our village, everyone relied on this way of perception much more than we do. Biologically we needed to be aware to puff up our hair and survive but this same mechanism was used to communicate collectively with all living beings when the dark of night reign or when language fails to serve us a the medium to communicate.