Mexchic

BLUE will be available for purchase online via www.mexchic.co late Tuesday afternoon 💙

A celebration of indigo farming and production in Oaxaca, mx, sustainability and textile arts. Every piece is unique and hand made with natural fibers in our studio.

The color blue has so taken on so much more significance to me in the last few months also deeply representing a women’s rights to choose, a color which stands against misogyny and the patriarchy. 💙🦋 a blue vote for is a vote for women ‘s rights and a vote against repression, racism and fascism. I do not agree with everything she stands for BUT she is clearly the better candidate.💙 please vote!!

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If you’re in Oaxaca, come visit the shop to see our new collection called BLUE dyed with indigo produced in Oaxaca. Have a mezcal and from 12-2 pm a indigo shibori demonstration by 💙

BLUE teeny peek 👀 the range of darks to lights in this indigo is glorious, it moves me to dress only in monochrome blue. Not as severe, and definitely more interesting than all black 💫 can’t wait to reveal our last two months of work this Thursday. 🦋

It’s easy to leave everything cream and white and if anyone really knows me and Mexchic, its my go to palette but sometimes I need to jump off the cliff and embrace color, I’m not much of a pattern or frilly florals person really, I love a clean line and yes to some abstract color … so in less than a week these perfect babies will be a sea of blue 💙 but realizing also that they look so darn good in their natural state of crème that I’ve got to also make them in the neutrals because I need these in my closet NOW haha. The clothing I make is what I want to wear,a play on my own desire and memories. 💙

💙 We’ve been cutting new patterns and sewing up a storm at the studio in preparation for our new collection BLUE, arriving to the shop on October 31. Every piece is one of a kind, made with only natural materials like wool, cotton, silk and linen. Everything will be dyed with the indigo that I purchased directly with the farmers/producers last month 💙🌿

Something that I rarely do is over-dye after a garment has been sewn … usually I dye about 20-40 meters of fabric first and then sew up the collection, based on what the fabric tells me it wants to be… this time I wanted to work in an opposite way, and play with the idea of the finished garment telling me what it wants to be … 🤪💙🌿 I know … haha but really this is how it works. Can’t wait to begin the dying processes this week 💙 !! I’ll be posting in stories along the way 💙

If you haven’t yet read the blog post I wrote on Indigo and the farmers of Santiago Niltepec who produce this glorious natural dye material, you should!

I also made a really good playlist to go along with all this inky BLUE, link in bio to both 💙

🌿Caitlin of generously invited me to write a piece on the pochote tree and its magical fiber-producing pods for Thread Caravan’s craft focused, newly relaunched Journal. Take a look, link in bio!
🌿 Photograph of pochote fiber taken at the Mexchic studio in Oaxaca, Mexico
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love it when I’m the infinite scroll zone of my phone, going through years and years of images and work, searching for something specific but then come across an old idea I … this was from about 5 years ago, I wanted to play with the idea of Delft tiles, printing or embroidery but make them related to Oaxaca and textiles, I soooo love the fat sheep 🐑 🤣

I made a playlist called BLUE, to listen to while I make this next round of work naturally dyed pieces with Oaxacan Indigo sourced directly from the bad ass farmers and producers who make it.

💙🌿Link in bio to the playlist 🌿💙

I finally had a moment this weekend to upload images from the trip to the remote indigo producing town Santiago Niltepec for the 2nd Feria de Añil, a wrote a little bit about it too 💙🌞🌿 experiences such as this remind me why I live in Oaxaca and do the work I do. Thank you y for taking me on this journey! Link in bio 💙

Haven’t had a chance to post this gorgeous one of a kind dress yet, a favorite from the Maza collection. 🌷 Silk with natural dyes 🌷 I’ve posted images from this collection in our archive on the website, link in bio. The piece has been sold 🫶

We have some new pieces up online 💘

Huesitos Dos Mini 🕷️ A one of a kind pillow quilt, made with vintage black silk organza from the 1950’s and filled with pochote fiber procured in Oaxaca and hand processed in our studio 🕷️ it’s soooo weird and gorgeous looks fantastic draped over a chair, sofa for an extra cray flex…. Drape it over your car seat ❤️‍🔥
🕷️ This piece is up in our online shop with complimentary shipping to USA and MX anywhere else Dm me for a discounted ship quote 🫶