Over the next few hours, several thousand Mayan women streamed into the square and the cobblestone streets leading to it. They had come, I was told, from all but the most distant of Guatemala's 22 ...

Tuesday, December 25: All museums will be closed for the holiday. Wednesday, December 26: Maya Weaving Demonstration Though many are loosely familiar with the Maya calendar whose supposed ...

Hosted by the Americas Society / Council of the Americas, the talk will be followed by a walkthrough of both traditional Maya weaving techniques and handcrafted handbag creation, and a ritual ...

ALBANY, N.Y (NEWS10) — A group of women in Guatemala has been passing down the tradition of weaving for more than two thousand years. It’s a tradition that Mayan Hands, a nonprofit in Albany ...

An introduction to Mayan Backstrap weaving. Weavers demonstrate and guide participants throughout the production process, practiced for over 2,000 years by Indigenous Maya women in Central America.