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The Tzotzil indigenous woman who won the National Arts Award of Mexico for her fabrics

Venustiano Carranza (Mexico), Dec. 9 (EFE / EPA).- The heritage that left her lineage has made her a great connoisseur of Mexican textile art. For more than four decades, Carmen Vázquez, Tzotzil indigenous, has been an outstanding student and promoter of the textile art of the Mayan peoples.(CAMERA: Mitzi Fuentes)IMAGES: SOUNDBITES BY CARMEN VÁZQUEZ HERNÁNDEZ, TIGOTZIL NATIVE INDIGENOUS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF VENUSTIANO CARRANZA, NATIONAL ARTS AND LITERATURE PRIZE 2019; MARÍA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ AND JUANA SOLANO ESPINOSA.TRANSLATIONCARMEN VÁZQUEZ HERNÁNDEZ: 1. "My mother taught me, she started teaching me by weaving and making napkins, the threads I saw that she did not use I started to use, as a game, seeing what my mother was doing"2. "It is the only one we use here for Venustiano Carranza because in other places in Los Altos is different. The Venustiano Carranza blouse is thinner because our area is warm, it is very warm and that is why our clothes are thinner "3. "There is material that we, for example, the simplest, the yarn, is the simplest with which we make napkins from and hence follows the loom, with which we do blouses, shawls. What we work with is cotton thread"MARÍA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ: 1. "The truth is that is a source of pride because we see the fruit of our work, we have been working for years and our work is valued. Especially because it is not lost, this inheritance we have is not being lost"JUANA SOLANO ESPINOSA: 1. "That is why we have that idea to continue teaching and we have grandchildren and children that are still attracted to this, we hope that we will continue teaching them to keep our work alive because this craftwork is unique because like Carranza there is no one "