Las arpilleras de shuba: bordado de arpilleras para tejer la memoria colectiva sobre los espacios

Abstract

A group of peasant, indigenous and mestizo women inhabitants of the Shubaregion in Bogota, they are grouped around a space called let’s take memoryin the public library Francisco José of Caldas. There they arised the need to dialogue and problematize the content of their traditions, practices and their collective memory in order to avoid that the continuous waves of modernization drag to the forgetfulness this cumulate of knowledge own of an experience on the territory.For this, they use the traditional embroidery technique of Arpilleras that in Latin America has been used indifferent contexts as a social story closely linked with femininity around the historical events that surround the communities.By constructing an intimate vision, a representation of the spaces of the territory that they inhabited and of the territory that inhabits them, the women weavers of Shuba have configured an exercise of creation where it is possible a particular transit towards the collective healing through the social story and the (re) significance of memory through popular and traditional techniques of weaving

Keywords

• Territory
• traditions
• collective memory
• historical memory
• individual memory
• own knowledge
• fabric
• community.