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, ...

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 ...

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.

Neil Goss is on a cross-country "East to West: Medicinal Art Tour," that focuses on creating temporary, public site-specific artwork — and the Carnegie Center in New Albany, Ind., was one of his pit ...

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 ...