The film provides an informative overview of the weaving process, highlighting the interlocking of warp and weft threads to create fabric. It explains the use of various looms, such as the backstrap ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

LAGAWE, Ifugao (PIA) – The Provincial Local Government Unit (PLGU) of Ifugao initiates measures to address the diminishing indigenous knowledge and skills in the province, as part of its efforts to ...

MANILA, Philippines — A traditional weaving method passed on through generations has been institutionalized as a special course for senior high school students at a school in Lubuagan, Kalinga ...

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 ...