With a day filled with textiles and artisanal weaving, the “Pilares Chapultepec Festival: Nature and Culture” attracted entrepreneurs, artists, and enthusiasts for its five-day run in the First Section of the Forest.
“We are bringing knowledge and expertise with a lot of community and a lot of education in the almost 300 Pillars (…) it is a space for all of us,” stressed Javier Hidalgo Ponce, general coordinator of the Community Education Subsystem Pillars during the festival inauguration.
The day kicked off with the opening ceremony at the Jacaranda Square in the Los Pinos Cultural Complex. A mass backstrap loom class was held by users of the Pilares textile workshops.
The afternoon program included a catwalk, workshops, and a show featuring folklore and dialogues. The highlight was the “Weaving with the Heart I Found the Threads of Life” workshop, held at 4 pm.
The workshop explained the traditional waist loom technique, highlighting its ancestral origins and the use of a warper to assemble the threads and sticks of varying sizes. The figures involved noted that each has a unique name based on different cultural perspectives.
The festival coincided with the opening of the Mega Entrepreneurship Marathon, showcasing products entirely crafted by the Pillars in the Plaza de las Jacarandas during the five-day cultural event in the First Section of Chapultepec Forest.