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 ...
Xaneri Merino, a transgender woman and artisan from southern Mexico, was once punished for weaving in her Indigenous ...
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 ...
Portions of back strap looms built for Akoyikoyi School. (HABELE FOUNDATION)[/caption] An innovative charter school is re-introducing old cultural skills to students on Weno, capital of the most ...
Xaneri Merino, a transgender woman from an Indigenous community in Mexico, defies traditional gender roles by embracing weaving, taught by her grandmother. The art of weaving, which faces cultural ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mangali Rai sat before a wooden loom probably a century old and played the antique instrument like a harp. As her feet pumped slender pedals, her fingers danced across taut strands ...
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