city woman powerful happy with skin
wrinkled with so much wisdom wisdom
with much green green of native forest
full of a thousand colors son of the central
ritual of dyeing rivers waterfalls birds
singing fresh air fecund rain and
sky
that ‘s u and back
witran is the loom that has given me
knowledge that has given me
wisdom that he keeps among his works of
soft wool strands my passion my joy
that they weave and connect me with my being
if I’m angry, training is tightened
hardens but also gets stronger
when I’m happy the colors come out
alive they leave happy and they shine
when I’m sad the loom also what
is then in my embrace consoles me and
that is also transmitted
once a weaver told me my colors
they are very sad
well then this excites us now
I told him the loom never lies
I’m anita villamil and I’m witral from
very girl
I saw my mother weave some huge
huge blankets in that time now I
river dance so immense there are more immense
she always knitted daily but she
I was always as angry as very
It would be hard for me to understand their
attitude back then but later with
the years I understood how serious it would be
she is in front of her tissue
to be able to transmit that also to
We take it seriously and respect
well we all boys my brothers
one eight four brothers him ten years
we asked for bread while she was knitting
and she said when I finished knitting
I’m going to give bread that we made
we take his wool we take an iron from
wes and we would knit next to her
so they could finish luege we could
give bread
my mother told me that when girl she
saw his mother knit but did not learn with
the years she went to santiago was
watching there a long time but by themes
of health had to return again to
south
and at that time she remembered the loom
while I was alone
She beautiful and loom and her first fabric
It was
a blanket guess who
for my father a blanket for my father
Since then she has been knitting
blankets mainly outerwear
both for the family and also for
tissues that he was sent to do
It was so much
the requirement that our
our parents with respect to
connect with this type of tissue
I remember when I was about 10 years old
coming from school my mother always me
I used to take care of the animals but I did not
he sent with empty hands he sent me
with a roll of wool
and told me when you get to the house
you must have finished it
and the truth is that I suffered because I did not
I could
I could not play I’m not going to play with my
friends I’m not going to play with my neighbors and
at that time my cousin appeared on
cousin Juanito who is the same age
what do I have then anita we play
But let ‘s play and I could no longer that what
ran the brand new idea of going to the house
from his mother stealing a ball of wool
place them I use so that I could
playing with him the truth is that my mom
I never knew perhaps now after
this finds out I do not know probably yes
with time between studies and tissues
I contacted classes for me
they asked to teach this art initially
At first I was really scared gave me
scared because I felt there were people
greater within these groups of women
but I really said no because I have to
make this art I have to do that
this knowledge is not lost and
same time I also needed to live
I needed to generate income
for my family and for me and I took the
decision and I devoted myself to doing classes
I travel a lot and the truth is that I’ve
had the chance to go to many places
teaching my art by teaching my fabrics
and when I’m knitting when I’m
doing classes the truth is that I
I forget that I am doing classes grab
my loom you grabbed the fire and put me
say until one of my students I
says teacher now I follow I wake is mine
I forget I focus too much
I have traveled several countries were
Germany was in Italy they were
united states always showing my art
showing my tissues and the truth is that
that makes me a proud woman of
be Mapuche and proud to be weavers
my grandmother
the culprit that I am a weaver no longer
live physically
when I was born
she had already embarked on her trip to
find to meet their
ancestors
I do not have any photographs of her in
I really do not know
but she lives in me
I know what I am today thanks to that
knowledge that she inherited me I feel
that every strand of wool that is bound
in my loom is guided by his hand
he knew that he gives life to this art that later
Strengthen with my mother nowadays
I only make fabrics on orders to
very special people I do not dedicate myself to
weave daily but if I dedicate myself to doing
workshops
I see them in a good way
as an obligation I also believe that
this knowledge and knowledge and this
inheritance left by our
ancestors it is necessary to spread it is
necessary signal
some time ago I met an artist
artist connection
chilean-american
I contacted a very crazy idea that he
I had
He contacted many artisans of
here of chile of the ninth region
mainly to work in a
project that he had mind he was looking for
someone as crazy as he I believe and between
that search found me
accepted a lot of challenge in life and that
it was one challenges that somehow
it was more than a challenge was to be able to show
my art in a different way
and a way of saying that our tissue
to say that our art is not past
there is the proof that you see
they see true as a technique in central
connects with technology
in these tissues we could place codes
qr were the first textiles
coded facts with a technique in
central imagine how proud you must be
be my grandmother
the loom is not passed
stellar the future and it will continue to be
my witral teaches me protects me
accompanies in my life does not pass a day in
I do not have a loom in front of me
It has made me travel through divine worlds
and also for this earthly world when
I need energy
stellar my life
well a couple of years ago
I was running a project
Mapuche iconography research in
the museum of the American Indian in
washington filed the nomination
I think it was like in October
I was waiting for that result
and I got November the date of all
the Saints
As a child my mother always us
He led to the cemetery to leave flowers
our grandparents were waiting for
all the saints to be able to reach
visit our graveyard grandfather
and this year when they sign the cemetery
next to my family the truth happened to me is
that something amazing
I was with my family preparing the
flowers adorning the grave of my
grandmother we were like 15 15 relatives
it was at that time when we retired
from the cemetery we are going out with the
door for those things in life I looked
backwards
when I see myself so crowned flower
as I’m not going to create it, I ‘ll return
plant the flower again
I start digging the earth and I
I find a pipe with a tube that
Grandmother had inherited me back then
I could not believe it because I really do not
it was something that I was looking for what
I was always looking for my grandmother and
decorate it and always have him with her as
best possible his burial
powerful old warrior woman with the
wrinkled skin of so much happy wisdom
I see my grandmother happy because she
You see young because he knows that I will receive
your knowledge and that I’m going to
to transmit
she knows that being in my power her
knowledge is not going to be lost I’m going to
transmit order
she will always be in my powerful
warrior and I knew how my loom that
he always stands
I am anita for her milk and I am witral
[Applause]
[Music]
wrinkled with so much wisdom wisdom
with much green green of native forest
full of a thousand colors son of the central
ritual of dyeing rivers waterfalls birds
singing fresh air fecund rain and
sky
that ‘s u and back
witran is the loom that has given me
knowledge that has given me
wisdom that he keeps among his works of
soft wool strands my passion my joy
that they weave and connect me with my being
if I’m angry, training is tightened
hardens but also gets stronger
when I’m happy the colors come out
alive they leave happy and they shine
when I’m sad the loom also what
is then in my embrace consoles me and
that is also transmitted
once a weaver told me my colors
they are very sad
well then this excites us now
I told him the loom never lies
I’m anita villamil and I’m witral from
very girl
I saw my mother weave some huge
huge blankets in that time now I
river dance so immense there are more immense
she always knitted daily but she
I was always as angry as very
It would be hard for me to understand their
attitude back then but later with
the years I understood how serious it would be
she is in front of her tissue
to be able to transmit that also to
We take it seriously and respect
well we all boys my brothers
one eight four brothers him ten years
we asked for bread while she was knitting
and she said when I finished knitting
I’m going to give bread that we made
we take his wool we take an iron from
wes and we would knit next to her
so they could finish luege we could
give bread
my mother told me that when girl she
saw his mother knit but did not learn with
the years she went to santiago was
watching there a long time but by themes
of health had to return again to
south
and at that time she remembered the loom
while I was alone
She beautiful and loom and her first fabric
It was
a blanket guess who
for my father a blanket for my father
Since then she has been knitting
blankets mainly outerwear
both for the family and also for
tissues that he was sent to do
It was so much
the requirement that our
our parents with respect to
connect with this type of tissue
I remember when I was about 10 years old
coming from school my mother always me
I used to take care of the animals but I did not
he sent with empty hands he sent me
with a roll of wool
and told me when you get to the house
you must have finished it
and the truth is that I suffered because I did not
I could
I could not play I’m not going to play with my
friends I’m not going to play with my neighbors and
at that time my cousin appeared on
cousin Juanito who is the same age
what do I have then anita we play
But let ‘s play and I could no longer that what
ran the brand new idea of going to the house
from his mother stealing a ball of wool
place them I use so that I could
playing with him the truth is that my mom
I never knew perhaps now after
this finds out I do not know probably yes
with time between studies and tissues
I contacted classes for me
they asked to teach this art initially
At first I was really scared gave me
scared because I felt there were people
greater within these groups of women
but I really said no because I have to
make this art I have to do that
this knowledge is not lost and
same time I also needed to live
I needed to generate income
for my family and for me and I took the
decision and I devoted myself to doing classes
I travel a lot and the truth is that I’ve
had the chance to go to many places
teaching my art by teaching my fabrics
and when I’m knitting when I’m
doing classes the truth is that I
I forget that I am doing classes grab
my loom you grabbed the fire and put me
say until one of my students I
says teacher now I follow I wake is mine
I forget I focus too much
I have traveled several countries were
Germany was in Italy they were
united states always showing my art
showing my tissues and the truth is that
that makes me a proud woman of
be Mapuche and proud to be weavers
my grandmother
the culprit that I am a weaver no longer
live physically
when I was born
she had already embarked on her trip to
find to meet their
ancestors
I do not have any photographs of her in
I really do not know
but she lives in me
I know what I am today thanks to that
knowledge that she inherited me I feel
that every strand of wool that is bound
in my loom is guided by his hand
he knew that he gives life to this art that later
Strengthen with my mother nowadays
I only make fabrics on orders to
very special people I do not dedicate myself to
weave daily but if I dedicate myself to doing
workshops
I see them in a good way
as an obligation I also believe that
this knowledge and knowledge and this
inheritance left by our
ancestors it is necessary to spread it is
necessary signal
some time ago I met an artist
artist connection
chilean-american
I contacted a very crazy idea that he
I had
He contacted many artisans of
here of chile of the ninth region
mainly to work in a
project that he had mind he was looking for
someone as crazy as he I believe and between
that search found me
accepted a lot of challenge in life and that
it was one challenges that somehow
it was more than a challenge was to be able to show
my art in a different way
and a way of saying that our tissue
to say that our art is not past
there is the proof that you see
they see true as a technique in central
connects with technology
in these tissues we could place codes
qr were the first textiles
coded facts with a technique in
central imagine how proud you must be
be my grandmother
the loom is not passed
stellar the future and it will continue to be
my witral teaches me protects me
accompanies in my life does not pass a day in
I do not have a loom in front of me
It has made me travel through divine worlds
and also for this earthly world when
I need energy
stellar my life
well a couple of years ago
I was running a project
Mapuche iconography research in
the museum of the American Indian in
washington filed the nomination
I think it was like in October
I was waiting for that result
and I got November the date of all
the Saints
As a child my mother always us
He led to the cemetery to leave flowers
our grandparents were waiting for
all the saints to be able to reach
visit our graveyard grandfather
and this year when they sign the cemetery
next to my family the truth happened to me is
that something amazing
I was with my family preparing the
flowers adorning the grave of my
grandmother we were like 15 15 relatives
it was at that time when we retired
from the cemetery we are going out with the
door for those things in life I looked
backwards
when I see myself so crowned flower
as I’m not going to create it, I ‘ll return
plant the flower again
I start digging the earth and I
I find a pipe with a tube that
Grandmother had inherited me back then
I could not believe it because I really do not
it was something that I was looking for what
I was always looking for my grandmother and
decorate it and always have him with her as
best possible his burial
powerful old warrior woman with the
wrinkled skin of so much happy wisdom
I see my grandmother happy because she
You see young because he knows that I will receive
your knowledge and that I’m going to
to transmit
she knows that being in my power her
knowledge is not going to be lost I’m going to
transmit order
she will always be in my powerful
warrior and I knew how my loom that
he always stands
I am anita for her milk and I am witral
[Applause]
[Music]
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