Marines Perez Santos is an unusual Maya weaver: He is male. As a child, Marines would help his mother prepare her backstrap loom for weaving by setting up the warp, or the set of threads placed ...

Join artist Travis Meinolf for a series of participatory, site-based weaving workshops using backstrap looms that physically connect the weaver to the new BAMPFA building. “The backstrap loom is a ...

Maya women in Guatemala continue to practice forms of backstrap weaving that have thrived in Central America for centuries, even adapting them to more contemporary uses like handbags. On Thursday, ...

An introduction to Mayan Backstrap weaving. Weavers demonstrate and guide participants throughout the production process, practiced for over 2,000 years by Indigenous Maya women in Central America.

Two-year-old Idiyanale Padrigan watches fourth-generation Filipina weaver, Evelynda Otong, as she works at her backstrap loom. She’s crafting another square to join the fabrics scattered from the ...

TABUK CITY, Kalinga (PIA) – Fifty-one students from various high schools in Lubuagan were trained in traditional backstrap weaving and beadwork in line with the municipality’s continuing efforts to ...