Grandes Maestros - Pascasia Cecilia Jaime Lino

Pascasia born in 1979, a textile artist, learned her craft thanks to her mother, Manuela Cecilia. When she was four years old, her mother asked her to grind the indigo pigment and make the skeins of yarn. When she grew up, she began creating her first shawls using the technique she preferred, which allowed her to develop her own designs, incorporating her creativity and unique approach to working with canvases. It was then that she began to weave on the backstrap loom, with the most common technique used among the weavers of Hueyapan: taffeta or simple weft. At the age of seventeen, she was already trained as an artisan weaver, dyer, and embroiderer while at the same time studying to become a teacher in the city of Puebla. Pascasia and her mother specialized in the dyeing process, becoming experts in indigo, cochineal, cempasúchitl, and walnut, among others. In her catalog, there are shawls, shawls, open and closed tomicotones, xquémitl, garments that are first woven and then dyed.