Oaxaca’s Silk Farmers Seek to Protect Their Way of Life

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Oaxaca’s Silk Farmers Seek to Protect Their Way of Life Oaxaca’s Silk Farmers Seek to Protect Their Way of Life

From The Texas Observer Silk came to these mountains in colonial times.  In 1523, the first Bombyx mori eggs arrived from Spain; 500 years later, artisans in six Zapotec communities continue to raise the offspring of those Spanish silkworms. Moisés Martínez is one of them, a member of Artesanos de Seda de la Sierra Norte, […] The post Oaxaca’s Silk Farmers Seek to Protect Their Way of Life first..
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