Eppie archuleta biography sample

Eppie Archuleta was born in Santa Cruz, New Mexico, but raised in Medanales, New Mexico, where her mother's family had lived for more than four generations.

Her mother, Agueda Martínez, was a weaver, practicing the traditional craft she had learned from her own mother. Archuleta's father was a schoolteacher before he became the postmaster in Medenales. He also was a weaver. After Agueda married, her husband taught her some of his native Chimayó styles and techniques.

As a child, Eppie worked alongside her parents and siblings, making rugs and blankets to sell.

Eppie Archuleta was even awarded the highest honor bestowed on a folk artist: a National Heritage.

She recalled that everyone in her family took part in the weaving process. "We used to have to work for the family," she said, "and we made our living by weaving, so we all have to do it. As soon as we reached the loom, we started weaving because we were a big family.

We were ten of us.

Attempting “to set the record straight,” Archuleta has written four books: “I Came From El Valle,” “Land of the Penitentes Land of Traditions,”.

We had to help our daddy. So we all had to weave. Some of them get the wool ready, and the bigger ones, we had to weave."

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