Tixinda: The purple snail

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Tixinda is a documentary film project by Rhys Lewis, Valeria Luongo and Chiara Vannucchi. - On the southern coast of México in the state of Oaxaca for thousands of years an ancient civilisation of Mixtec people have built a peculiar bond with nature through their traditional use of the ink of a purple sea snail.  The purple snail and the cotton threadCalled Tixinda in the Mixtec language, the snail produces a white liquid when stimulated which, when applied to fabric and exposed to air and sunlight turns material from light green to an intense purple colour. For generations ti ...

Read More ntoreros (dyers) would travel 300 kilometres to the coast, where they bravely collect these snails from rocks in the sea. They rub the belly to extract the dye which is immediately applied to threads of yarn. The tintoreros have learned to benefit from the creature without harming it: af

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