Buenos Aires - Cusco - Oaxaca

“From Incan architecture to unmatched weavings and graceful humanity, Peru dazzled us. ”

Back from a Walkabout

We dove deep into Latin America and took a long swim in the depths of these rich and diverse lands. 

Teresa took Eric to meet her extended family in Buenos Aires, that elegant, Euro-Latin city on the banks of the Rio la Plata. There we enjoyed wonderful cafes as well as the timeless ritual of the family afternoon asados. A.K.A, barbecue of the highest order. 

Then off to Peru to cool down from Argentina’s balmy swelter of summer heat. The high Andes in the rainy season, dressed in velvet green mountains capped with glaciers. The counterpoint to this were bright splashes of red and magenta, the traditional dress of the mountain Quechua people. The color of vitality. From Incan architecture to unmatched weavings and graceful humanity, Peru dazzled us. 

We then migrated onward, from the southern hemisphere to the northern and immersed ourselves in Oaxaca. Eric took Teresa through mountains and valleys to meet a diversity of potters. In the process we put together a gorgeous collection of pure Oaxacan earth and soul, formed into pieces of beauty and function by hands of generational masters. These clay spirits will arrive in Santa Fe sometime in June.

This whole journey South was like hitting the refresh button. Getting out into different air, different flavors, different energies and remembering, yet once again, that the world is so vast and diverse. And sometimes we have our noses so close to the grindstone that that’s all we can see. So here’s to walkabouts just as often as one can! 

With gratitude,

Teresa and Eric 

PROUD SOUTH WEST EVENT

PROUD SOUTH is a mesmerizing visual experience that celebrates the creative forces from the southern parts of the planet. Through the colourful and expressive lens of contemporary fashion, photography, styling, and art, Lidewij Edelkoort in collaboration with Lili Tedde and Mariola Lopez Mariño bring together emerging and established talents from wide and far, illustrating that the axis of global creativity has indeed dramatically shifted. 

Similarly, UXUA UTOPIA is a collector’s object that reinvents the coffee-table book by combining the lifestyle elements of design, art, food, craft, and travel to explore the Uxua hotel’s achievements in establishing humanitarian values for a new world; a very local project in Brazil that strives to create social impact.

Join us on Sunday, July 9th as we welcome Philip Fimmano of Trend Union at Living Threads Studio for the launch of these stunning new publications. We will also be welcoming Noir Mud Silk and I Owe You, for a special pop-up. And just to top it all off there will be live Andean music by Lucho Rodriguez - we hope to see you there as we celebrate all this creative energy together!

PROUD SOUTH WEST
Sunday, July 9
3 to 6PM
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11.11 /ELEVEN ELEVEN TRUNK SHOW with Co-Founder Mia Morikawa, AUGUST 14th 11 am - 5 pm

We are over-the-top thrilled to host Mia Morikawa, co-founder of 11.11 for a trunk show of the “seed to stitch” work of 11.11 for our Santa Fe community! This stunning, joyful and superb-quality work so perfectly aligns with our values and is part of what makes Living Threads shine.

Craftsmanship lies at the heart of 11.11 / eleven eleven. Renowned for its use of indigenous cotton and 100% natural dyes, the label uses heritage techniques such as hand spinning, hand loom weaving, hand painting, miniature tie-dyeing, and quilting, producing small-batch slow-made clothing in collaboration with groups of artisans located all across India. This approach is light on our planet, highly positive for all involved in it’s creation and simply elegant no matter how you look at it.

POP UP: NILDA CALLEÑAUPA & Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco, July 20th 10am to 5pm

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Remember

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Inspired by the wisdom and knowledge of rooted humanity and our dynamic world, we invite you to join us. 

Come sit in a circle of elders and wrap yourself in natural fibers.

Remember what it is like to be calm.

Remember what it is like to be nurtured.

Remember what it is like to be guided.

Remember what it is like to be held.

Remember what it is like to be loved. 

Remember what it is like to be at peace.

Remember what it is like to be noble (dignified and noble clear-eyed).

Remember what is like to have your existence imbued with meaning and purpose and holiness and playfulness and laughter.

Remember what you never knew you’d forgotten. 

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Living Threads and the Grace of Things Well Done

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Hand-woven, natural-fiber textiles made with skill and experience. Thoughtfully designed, selected with a sensitive eye, and shared in a way that pleases the heart. Objects whose production helps maintain healthy soil, the water, and the people who create them. Creations whose sales contribute to the economic well-being of the producers. Handmade goods come from women and men who carry on generational artistic traditions; this is what it takes to keep the old knowledge alive, to feed the flames of ancient human ways. Worthy. 

Photographs that are deep with meaning. Each image tells a story. These are stories of First Nations people of the Americas dressed in their traditional clothing/community fashion which symbolically represents a connection to a people, a place, a cultural heritage, and an artistic tradition. And each photo is a chapter in a greater story,  that of the richness of human diversity and all the beauty we’ve dreamed into being through the depths of time. These photos were taken with care, patience, and respect. They have been printed with utmost skill and craftsmanship and the highest quality materials. 

These natural fibers, these crafted images, and all that goes into them and lies behind them in heritage, story, and meaning... this is the grace of things well done.