Colcha is a type of embroidered textile in which a long stitch is tacked down with a series of angled cross stitches on a piece of woven fabric. “That makes it specifically colcha, as opposed to any ...

On a sunny early September afternoon, longtime San Luis resident Donna Madrid Hernandez sat at a shaded picnic table in the town park. She threaded about a foot of blue wool fiber onto an embroidery ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Longtime Traditional Spanish Market artist Julia Gomez has become an international ambassador for New Mexico’s ...

An 88-year-old Westminster woman has been making quite a name for herself through her art in the past five years. In 2019, Josephine Lobato was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts National ...

There are groups of women in the San Luis Valley who craft elaborate scenes using embroidery, detailing scenes from farms, labor history and mountain landscapes in their region. Their work, known as ...

The Wray Museum, in conjunction with the Prairie Sea Projects, is hosting a colcha embroidery workshop. Artist and colcha historian Trent Segura will lead a two-hour exploration of the themes, ...