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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Speakers at a regional conference yesterday said centuries old back-strap weaving craft of the indigenous people is in danger of becoming extinct in absence of patronisation for its immediate revival.

Masterful Guatemalan weaver, Bertina López Cumez will be demonstrating backstrap loom weaving techniques at this special event held at the Hearst Museum. Try your hand at weaving while getting to ...

LAFAYETTE — Weaving is an ancient art. It has been practiced — and refined — in every culture, in every age. Artists’ Own features the elaborate and complex art of weaving in its current exhibit, “Art ...