This Giving Tuesday, Experience the Living Tradition of Indigo
Color, Memory, and Documenting the Last Indigo Dyer of San Cristóbal de Las Casas
A Virtual Film Screening + Conversation with Katarin María Laruelle Aránguiz & Karla Faro Ruiz
Join the Textile Society of America on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, for a special Giving Tuesday event. We are proud to feature Katarin María Laruelle Aránguiz, a TSA Research Travel Grant awardee, who will present her fieldwork and film documenting the indigo-dyeing traditions of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Laruelle Aránguiz’s project captures the knowledge of master dyer Francisco Álvarez Montoya through filmed oral histories and dyeing demonstrations. This work is a critical intervention as synthetic dyes increasingly displace these ancestral techniques. Developed in partnership with the Centro de Textiles del Mundo Maya, the project will culminate in public exhibitions, artisan workshops, and academic publications.
TSA is honored to host a preview of the director’s cut of this documentary, followed by a conversation with Laruelle Aránguiz and Karla Faro Ruiz from the Cntro ede Textiles del Mundo Maya A.C..
Image: Francisco Álvarez Montoya in his indigo studio in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas.
