Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Textile museum in central Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.
The Museo Textil de Oaxaca displays regional fabrics, traditional garments, and woven materials in a restored colonial building in the historic district. The collection shows pieces that represent textile traditions and handcraft skills from different parts of Mexico.
The building, Casa Antelo, began as part of the orchard of the Convento de Santo Domingo Soriano, founded in 1529. Miguel de Bustamante built a single-storey adobe house on the site between 1764 and 1771; Ángel de Antelo y Bermúdez later bought it, exported cochineal and replaced it with a two-storey building. In the 19th century it served as the Hospital de Bélen. Its interior was destroyed in 2002, and the Fundación Alfredo Harp Helú Oaxaca acquired and remodelled it in 2006; the museum opened on 19 April 2008.
The museum's textile gathering, TEXTIM (Encuentro de Textiles Mesoamericanos), was first held on 17 and 18 October 2014 and honours a weaver or artist each edition: Irmgard Weitlaner Johnson, Justina Oviedo Rangel, Ernesto Cervantes and Francisco Toledo. Pieces on show include the tlàmachtēntli, a huipil fragment woven with feather thread, alongside sashes, belts and rebozos from several regions of Mexico.
Visiting is best in the cooler morning hours, when the colonial building is less crowded. Workshops on traditional weaving techniques and natural dyeing processes run regularly and allow you to learn directly from local craftspeople.
The museum opened on 19 April 2008 in the Casa Antelo, a house Ángel de Antelo y Bermúdez rebuilt as a two-storey building after demolishing an earlier adobe structure; in the 19th century the building served as the Hospital de Belén. Its oldest textiles date from the 19th century, and among the roughly 7,000 pieces is a tlàmachtēntli, a huipil fragment woven with feather thread.
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