Gaucho braiding: resilience, sustainability and worldview.

Painted and embroidered, leather was already used by the Native people who inhabited the territory before the colonial era. With the cultural clash caused by the arrival of the colonisers, their Andalusian influence, and then the immigration that followed the fall of the Ottoman Empire, gaucho braiding developed as we know it today. Made by and for the gaucho man and his horse, which is very unusual in the textile world, this type of leather interlacing has been adapted to different meanings throughout the Latin American postcolonial period.

Lectures:

2025 - Regenerate! Symposium. Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH), Maastricht, Netherlands.

2024 - Intra-Action Symposium, An intra-sectional approach to the design of possible, probable and preferable futures . Eina Univeristy. Barcelona, Spain.