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Ludys María Carval

San Jacinto, Bolívar.
Tejeduría

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Ludys’s mother was a weaver, but she was no teacher to her daughter. Neither did she have the time nor the vocation to teach in a house of eight children. Ludys watched and learned by herself. She used to go to a wire fence and begin to weave on its three edges what she thought would become a hammock. From these fences, she moved on to window frames. She knew that her weavings were crude, but that is how she gradually trained her hand and polished her craft. She began to make 15-yarn hammocks at the tender age of 12. She had to stand on a bench to be able to operate the vertical loom. They used to measure hammocks in “yarns” before they could do it with exact measurements, as they do today. She was delighted to be able to earn a few pesos thanks to her work. She ended up becoming a master weaver and truly embodying the tenacity of San Jacinto’s craftswomen. They dedicate their lives to their extremely demanding trade. Their craft asks of them to spend the entire time they work standing in front of their looms, making it impossible for them to have eight-hour workdays. This is why these craftswomen mix in the chores and other errands they have to do during the day with their hammock weaving —which they do in the cool, silent hours of dawn. Since Ludys is a visual learner, she came to be fascinated by the way she saw Rosa Navarro weave lampazo hammocks. She fell in love with this type of weaving, which creates a unique pattern by making unequal color strokes on the fabric through a process that resembles tie-making. She knows the particular technique needed to craft labrado hammocks as well. It can take days or even weeks of work to weave one of these wares. This is why she insists so much on the arduousness of the trade. Likewise, she invites us to watch her and the other weavers practice their craft: she wants us to understand the process and discover how threads, when pushed firmly by a pair of rods, miraculously turn into a weft.

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