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 ...

Fifty-one students from various high schools in Lubuagan were trained in traditional backstrap weaving and beadwork in line ...

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 ...

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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Bhakti Ziek has lived a lot of lives. First, she says, were her hippie days when she was looking for the perfect ...