Making a Bespoke Trucker Jacket with Graziano & Gutiérrez

IN 2016, Alejandro Gutiérrez landed in Oaxaca at the Bautista Martinez family’s taller (Spanish for “workshop”) while on an internship studying textiles. For generations, the family has produced handwoven fabrics with a fully analog pedal loom, a complex contraption that brings gravity to the arduous task of handweaving threads into textiles. Traditionally, the fabrics are used for tablecloths, pillowcases, and curtains. Gutiérrez wanted to turn them into clothes, so they could be more intimately experienced and adored—at the same time recontextualizing the Oaxacan fabrics for a new audience. Read more at Portland Monthly.