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Mónica Sosaya-Halford (b. 1931, Santa Fe, New Mexico), the eighth and last child of Augustine and Victoria Sosaya, grew up in a home built by her father on what is now Sosaya Lane. Her mother's family, the Roybals, descend from the original settlers…

Julia R. Gomez (born 1941, Madrid, New Mexico) was first exposed to colcha embroidery by her mentor, Mónica Sosaya-Halford, in the 1970s. She later learned to weave at El Rancho de las Golondrinas, where master weaver, Beatrice Maestas Sandoval,…

Kay Lewis (b. 1942, Los Angles, California) moved to New Mexico at age eighteen months. In 1882 Kay's great-grandfather became the first station agent in Española, New Mexico, where Kay's grandmother lived with the family in the Denver and Rio…

“The beauty that you have within you is what you’re putting onto the cloth with your hands.”      --- Esther Luján Vigil Esther Luján Vigil (born 1933, San Pedro, Española, New Mexico) is a colcha embroidery artist and historian of colcha embroidery…