We spent the month of December renting a house outside of Oaxaca so did a lot of exploring. Just…read moreup the road was this little town without a downtown or central plaza. At least as far as we could see. Driving up a road past a few small restaurants we came to an old factory. Don't know the name of it, but it was from very early 1900s and was hosting an exhibit of textiles. Apparently this had been a textile factory and now it was two stories of beautifully word pine flooring, a number of water ponds and flowing water and a number of small classrooms and offices. We went to the museum and used the nice bathrooms and then were directed or advised that the paper factory that we were looking for was down below the museum. Doubtful we were in trying to drive down the washed out road so asked and found that there was a left hand turn if we went back the way we came. Ah ha! We did and turned down at least a passable road, past hibiscus bushes and a couple of homes and the road ended at another building which looked like an electrical station. I guess it was at one time as water ways directed flow from the higher hills through and around this building to a stream below. And there we found this paper fabrication effort. Very old and very traditional there was an old man there who spoke no English. He offered a tour and there we were, taking a very steep stone stepping path down to his shop, a metal roofed shed. Just outside were tables with the various items of nature what he broke down for their fibers. There were nuts, leafs, roots and just things. Inside his long shed were tanks of water filled with, well...fibers that were soaking into a pulp to then be screened and dried into sheets of paper. Pretty exotic. The tanks of water were like old machine components so it matched the museum building above and the powerhouse-like building that was just above us. Fascinating. A very nice guy and as we were finishing a group of young Mexican couples came down for the tour, so this was a known entity. They told us that the powerhouse building did have some paper for sale, so up we went. Not much was to be had, but this was December and with the holidays most things, to include the little restaurants were shut down. This is an interesting area about 10 miles north of Oaxaca. Worth exploring and we were told that a few of the restaurants were well known. If you have a car...check it out.