A boi it means her or his plaid in Muisca language. This was the language spoken by the people in the region around Bogotá before and after colonial times, now not anymore. Back then, textiles were very precious craft. The Indigenous used it as barter; they had the same value as gold. The storytelling tradition of this region recounts that it was Bochica, the main god of the Muisca people, who taught them to spin and weave plaids.

Designer Ana Maria Gomez:

“I started this textile collaboration with William some years ago, he is an extremely talented handicraft artisan from a small town near Bogotá in the altiplano cundiboyasense of Colombia: Cucunubá, Cundinamarca. We basically weave together, for days. We meet to exchange know-how and share different perspectives on how craft and contemporary design may intersect. We look together at the traditional iconography and weaving structures of his region, and we twist and reinterpret these graphic symbols to create a new perception of them and how we interpret them…”

Every year Ana Maria makes a new serie of timeless textiles. Every piece has a special rhythm and mix of color manufactured with the best alpaca quality.

DIMENSIONS: 140 cm x 180cm

WEIGHT: 1 kg