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2018
Third place in the National Textile and Rebozo Contest
Third place in the National Textile and Rebozo Contest Third place for Josefina Jiménez Matías of Teotitlán del Valle with “Enredo de gala” rescue piece. (The term rescue pice – Pieza de rescate in spanish is used for traditional clothing that uses techniques that are falling in disuse)
2018
2018 Received the M distinction: Calidad Moderniza (Modernize Quality) Program
The quality program MODERNIZA (MODERNIZE) is a management system to
improve Quality, by way of which tourism companies con motivate their collaborators and increase their profitability and competitiveness, based on a more modern way of running a tourism enterprise and better satisfy their customers’ expectations
2017
Participation in “Hilos Cruzados” (Crossed threads): A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLITY AND INNOVATION IN TEXTILES BETWEEN ARTISANS AND DESIGNERS”
During three workshops in May, June and November of 2017 artisans from the silk cooperatives, Benhi and Wen Do Sed from San Miguel Cajonos and San Pedro Cajonos, and designers from Germany and Mexico met in Oaxaca to jointly develop tools for elaborating sustainable and innovative textile products.
2017
Video of the process for “”Lazo””
“From Teotitlán del Valle Oaxaca she has been making rugs on a pedal loom, using natural dyes, since she was thirteen. Josefina learned this skill from her mother who, in turn, had learned it from her mother. The Jimenez family has been engaged in this craft for five generations.
Master Weaver Josefina is one of the most recognized artisans of her community for her use of natural dyes like the cochineal, the blue snail. She has received several awards including the Grand Prize, the Benito Juarez prize, the Natural Dyes of the Southwest prize, among others. She has been invited to various conferences and symposiums to share her extensive knowledge of natural dyes.
“When I weave I begin to imagine and dream” – Josefina Jiménez.”
2016
UN Women
Interview of Josefina Jiménez Matías for the publication: VOICES FROM THE FIELD; 30 STORIES OF ENTERPRISING WOMEN by UN Women in alliance with FIDA.
“Josefina Jiménez is a Zapotec woman from the municipality of Teotitlán del Valle, in Oaxaca. They call her Master Josephine even though she only has an elementary school education. As a child she could not continue her studies because she only spoke Zapotec and not Spanish. She learned the craft from her parents, both of whom weave rugs. She learned the craft from her parents, both of whom weave rugs. She is 56 years old and is considered an example to follow since she has promoted organizations of women who work with wool on pedal looms.”
2015
Interview with the author for the book: WOMEN, FEMINISM AND POPULAR ART
Eli Bartra and María Guadalupe Huacuz Elías (coordinators)
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
México, 2015
2010
Interview with the author for the book: Women in Mexican Folk Art: Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters and Celebrities
Written by Eli Bartra
University of Wales Press
Cardiff, 2010
2009
Collaboration with 
“After more than a year and a half of work, in May of 2009 one of the prototypes of the Teotitlán group became part of Levi Strauss of Mexico’s entrepreneurial social responsibility program in the Recycle and Reuse initiative. The project was made possible thanks to the joint work of SEMILLAS, Levi Strauss Foundation, Fábrica Social (Social Factory), Mujeres que Tejen en telar de pedal (Women who Weave on pedal looms) and Levi Strauss Mexico.”
2008
Women Who Weave on Pedal Looms was constituted as a “Sociedad Civil de Responsabilidad Limitada” (mexican legal figure for cooperatives)
2007
Interview with the author for the book:
By Lynn Stephen
Duke University Press
Durham and London, 2007
1992
Organizing among weavers to obtain credit to buy pedal looms
Diplomas and recognitions
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