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 ...

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 ...

Carol Ann Lorenz first became interested in Maya textiles when she met Marines and Lydia Perez in 1978 as the couple and a Guatemalan backstrap weaver were on an educational tour of local colleges and ...

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, ...

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 ...

Senior high school (SHS) students at the only public school in the municipality of Lubuagan in Tabuk City, Kalinga will soon be taught in their Home Economics classes the “laga” or the traditional ...