Rancho Tour
The Rancho Tour is an opportunity to meet the weavers of Las Rancheritas by visiting their village. This is your opportunity to experience life in a rural village. Included is: transportation, a fabulous homemade traditional Mexican luncheon, a visit to their store, a burro ride if you’d like, demonstrations in rug hooking, traditional cooking techniques and stone carving. This is a great tour for children and photographers. Remember to bring extra cash. There are wonderful crafts to purchase at great prices.
Learn more about your hosts, Las Rancheritas, Mexico’s only rug hookers at their website: http://rughookproject.com/
For May and June the rancho tour is only by appointment for groups of 6 or more.
Reservations are required for the tour.
Reservations and information for the tour at: info@rughookproject.com 512 447 2150
Cost is $750 pesos and includes transportation, lunch and the rancho tour. If you have your own transport the tour is 500 pesos.
Tours leave from in front of St. Paul’s Episcopal church on Cardo 3. You will need to pre pay with tickets.
In the small village of Agustin Gonzales located in the central Mexican highlands near San Miguel de Allende, 15 women spend what little free time they have hooking rugs. You will find them working late at night by kitchen tables after children are asleep or perhaps you will see them sitting under a tree in the hillside tending the cows and working on their rugs. Their subject matter is the life around them, mountains, cactus, cows, horses, burros, flowers, a small house, a church, ducks, rabbits, chickens, roosters or fish.
The people of the area are subsistence farmers who grow corn, beans and squash. The proceeds from selling these art pieces help with paying for additional food, children’s schooling, doctor visits and other family needs. Many of the women are the sole support of their families. Each art piece is entirely unique as is the skill of rug hooking in Mexico.
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