> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Daniela Contreras > Reference:: https://garlandmag.com/article/don-pablo/ > Date:: 2026 > Tags:: #warp/article #Mexico #weaving > WeftLinks:: [[Equity value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft provides a livelihood with dignity through market access]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Rural-to-urban migrants sustain their inherited palm-weaving tradition while street-vending in Mexico City, carrying craft knowledge through economic displacement and a dominant aesthetic that marginalises it. ### Highlights > Pablo Rosas Juárez, 63, and Juana Lucas del Prado, 59, come from a small town in southern Puebla, Tepexi de Rodríguez, where palm weaving and other forms of craft are part of the identity of a territory that has resisted the passage of time. > Yet when they migrated to the city, that knowledge didn't disappear; its conditions shifted. It went from something woven into daily life and shared, to something strained. > I do it with love, with care. Everyone born in my town is an artisan. It's not somebody else's work. We carry it in our blood. > To be weavers is to be carriers of communal knowledge that is learned through the body and embodied in our way of understanding life.