1.   It dyes wool a reddish brown colour, distinctively well known and often referred to in either language as crotal.

2.   The women prepared, spun and dyed the wool.

3.   Like the Shakers, she uses a number of them for medicine as well as for cooking and for dyeing the wool that she knits and weaves.

4.   The wool is dyed, spun and then laboriously woven into mostly geometric patterns on looms that are operated by foot pedals.

5.   There are animals to be tended, wool to be dyed, carpets to be woven, children to be schooled.

6.   To dye wool various shades of purple, pink and red, the weavers scrape a pest off nopal cactus leaves called the cochineal.

7.   To dye wool for the rugs, Margarita shows how a blight is scraped from cactus leaves to produce various shades of red.

8.   A copper vat factory workers used to dye wool was converted into a torture chamber by the Taliban, he said.