“We would get together and crochet for hours"
Ms Ron said crocheting became a form of solace for her and her mother after both her husband and father became ill in 2005. Not long after, that chore soon became her love, and decades later it has brought the mother-of-three to Dubai, where she is representing Mexico in all its glory at Expo 2020. “It then became a thing where I would be made to crochet for a while each day, and only then would I be allowed out to play with the horses.”
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“As I watched my great aunt create these knots, I thought it would be a good way to learn how to make reins that I could use to ride the horses. Lorena Ron, one of the women who helped weave the exterior of the Mexican pavilion, Khushnum Bhandari / The National “I was never girly and always wanted to go outside and play with the horses, but that was seen as something only boys did. “I would watch my great aunt weave and knit jumpers, blankets and rugs for people in the village,” she said. But it was “a chore more than a hobby", she said. A childhood chore became a loved hobbyĪ self-confessed tomboy, Ms Ron said she first started crocheting when she was only six-years-old. Measuring 28,320 square feet, it took the group eight months to weave before it was hung from building to building along their street during one of the town's annual festivals in October. In 2019, along with nearly 200 women from the crocheting association she set up in her village in 2016, they broke a world record for the “longest crochet canopy”. A post shared by Mexico Expo 2020 from a town called Etzatlan in Jalisco, which translates to "land of beans" in English, 60-year-old Ms Ron’s humble hobby has made her grab news headlines before.
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