This rug workshop was founded in the 1970s by Ismael Gutierrez, one of the three great masters of Oaxaca rugs, in the village of Teotitlan in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, which has long been known as a rug-producing region.
Today, he, his wife Linda, and their sons Gutires and Edgardo continue to hand-spin locally grown wool, dye it with natural dyes, and weave the fabric.
What is particularly noteworthy about this workshop is that, while most of the village's more than 100 rug workshops now use chemical dyes due to cost reasons, the workshop still uses traditional dyeing methods, extracting dyes from natural sources such as plants, insects and stones.
While many workshops use traditional Mexican motifs, the rugs made by this workshop combine tradition with modernity, making them one of a kind among Oaxaca rugs.